[Clinical and psychophysiological characteristics of headache in childhood].

Complex clinical psychophysiological as well as neurophysiological examinations of 210 children with migraine, chronic tension headache (CTH) and chronic posttraumatic headache (CPH) were carried out. Detailed comparative description of cephalalgia types is presented. In a CPH structure, predominates CTH (77.5%), combined type (14.1%); migraine (5.7%) and cervicogenic cephalalgia (2.7%) occur less often. CPH development mechanisms do not principally differ from non-traumatic cephalalgia pathogenesis. Trauma plays a role of a non-specific trigger in realization of these mechanisms. Chronic cephalalgia is caused mainly by poor social and psychological factors and patient's personality peculiarities. Psychovegetative syndrome in children with CTH, migraine or CPH reflects non-specifically diencephal structure disintegration; its clinical signs depending more on child's age than on cephalalgia type.