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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Plus Amitriptyline for Chronic Migraine in Children and Adolescents: A Randomized Clinical Trial

S. Silberstein, J. L. Pomeroy

Yearbook of Pediatrics, 2015

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Abstract

BACKGROUND  Migraine is ranked in the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study as the eighth leading cause of years lived with disability  There are currently no interventions approved by the FDA for the treatment of chronic migraine in young persons; thus clinical practice is not evidenced based and is quite variable  A high priority research need in headache medicine is the testing of multimodal treatments against pharmacotherapy alone

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