Unit:
Διακρατικό ΠΜΣ Κλινική Νευροψυχολογία-Νοητικές ΝευροεπιστήμεςLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Kampouris Konstantinos
Supervisors info:
Κωνσταντίνος Πόταγας, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Νικόλαος Σμυρνής, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Ιωάννης Ευδοκιμίδης, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Οπτικοχωρική αντιληπτική ικανότητα και οπτική μνήμη στην ημικρανία
Translated title:
Visuospatial perception and visual memory in migraine
Summary:
The purpose of this study is the assessment of the visuospatial perception and visual memory of migraine patients in contrast to a healthy control group, as well between migraine patients with aura and without aura. The research sample is divided in two groups: the research group, which constists of 31 migraine patients (10 of them having migraine visual aura) that fulfill the diagnostic criteria of the ICHD-3 beta version, and the control group, which consists of 30 healthy participants. In this research design, neuropsychological assessment tools were used as well as assessment scales, and demographic and clinical data were recruited. From the statistical analyses of the data, it was found that the performance of the migraine patients in postacute period was significantly statistically lower than the healthy controls in the tasks of immediate and delayed recall and memory recognition of the Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT), and in the MoCA, but their score in the BDI was higher. Those performances were significantly statistically correlated with their demographic and clinical characteristics. Controlling for the effect of the BDI score, it was found that the effect of the migraine diagnosis continued to be statistically significant in the variables of the true positive and total correct recognition of the RCFT, but not in those of immediate and delayed recall of the RCFT. To sum up, the main findings of this study are that in postacute period migraine patients and especially those without aura exhibit lower performance in a task of memory recognition of visual stimuli and that their performance in a task of visual memory is mediated by the score in the BDI scale.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Visuospatial perception, Visual memory, Memory recognition, Migraine, Migraine aura
Number of references:
107
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