Headache and comorbidity in children and adolescents.

Headache is one of the most common neurological symptom reported in childhood and adolescence, leading to high levels of school absences and being associated with several comorbid conditions, particularly in neurological, psychiatric and cardiovascular systems. Neurological and psychiatric disorders, that are associated with migraine, are mainly depression, anxiety disorders, epilepsy and sleep disorders, ADHD and Tourette syndrome. It also has been shown an association with atopic disease and cardiovascular disease, especially ischemic stroke and patent foramen ovale (PFO).

Medication overuse headache in school-aged children: more common than expected?

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of medication overuse headache (MOH) in a group of children and adolescents seen for headache in a third-level center in Italy.

Background: Epidemiological studies indicate a prevalence of MOH in children and adolescents between 0.3 and 0.

Abilities of preschoolers: comparing different tools.

Background: There is a strong need for studies evaluating tests in terms both of psychometric properties (i.e. their efficacy or ability to be helpful in reaching a diagnosis) and of their cost-effectiveness (i.

Scientifically based nurture and nature: alternative but non exclusive hypotheses on attention development.

Attention is an important neuropsychological function in child development. A lot of literature has been devoted to trying to separate the role of nature (i.e.

The 2q23.1 microdeletion syndrome: clinical and behavioural phenotype.

Six submicroscopic deletions comprising chromosome band 2q23.1 in patients with severe mental retardation (MR), short stature, microcephaly and epilepsy have been reported, suggesting that haploinsufficiency of one or more genes in the 2q23.1 region might be responsible for the common phenotypic features in these patients.