Decision‐making impairment under ambiguity but not under risk may underlie medication overuse in patients with chronic migraine

• Published in: Headache Vol. 63; no. 6; pp. 822 - 833
• Main Authors: Lau, Chi Ieong, Chen, Wei‐Hung, Wang, Han‐Cheng, Walsh, Vincent
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.06.2023
• Subjects: Ambiguity; Analgesics; Cambridge Gambling Task; chronic migraine; Decision making; Decisions; Executive function; Gambling; Headache; Iowa Gambling Task; medication overuse headache; Migraine; Pathogenesis; United States > US; Iowa; Wisconsin; medication overuse headache; Iowa Gambling Task; chronic migraine; decision-making; Cambridge Gambling Task

Objective To explore whether patients with chronic migraine and medication overuse headache (CM + MOH) present with decision‐making deficit. Background Factors underlying MOH in patients with CM remain unclear. Whether the process of decision‐making plays a role in MOH is still controversial. Decisi...