Do behavioral treatments work for migraine prevention?

Abstract

migraine symptoms, attack frequency, and/or migraine- related disability. Further, migraine is a highly stigmatized disorder; people with migraine are sometimes labelled “hysterical,” and may have been dismissed as attention- seekers unable to cope with routine life stressors. Using the terminology “behavioral treatments” can com municate more effectively to patients that we do not see migraine disease as psychological in origin, but instead we are recommending targeted migraine- focused behavior change that has a biologically plausible rationale and has demonstrated efficacy to reduce mi graine symptoms and disability. and