Female migraine patients had lower COVID-19 phobia and PCL-5 scores during the lockdown period.

Çile Aktan Tuğçe Toptan Çisem Utku Hayrunnisa Bolay

Published in: Acta neurologica Belgica (2023)

Acute stress response to an extraordinary situation such as a pandemic may be more controlled in migraine patients, yet specific phobia and post-traumatic stress disorder have been reported more frequently in patients with migraine under normal living conditions. We interpreted that the life-long headache-associated stress may generate a tendency to resilience and resistance to extraordinary traumatic events in migraine patients.

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