METHOD FOR DETECTING THE INTENSITY OF TENSION HEADACHE Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC A61B5/484 

FIELD: medicine, neurology.

SUBSTANCE: one should register P300 potential to sound stimulation from electrodes located in frontal, central, temporal and parietal cerebral areas to detect its latency to valuable sound stimulus. Then it is important to register P300 to verbal stimulation from electrodes located in frontal and central cerebral areas and from an electrode located in left temporal area to detect its latency to a valuable verbal stimulus. At P300 latency values to sound stimulus ranged 258.26-297.07 msec and to verbal stimulus ranged 334.64-375.96 msec the intensity of tension headache (TH) is considered to be weak and of average degree by evaluating it up to 7 points according to a certain scale, and the values to sound stimulus ranged 303.71-336.66 msec and verbal stimulus ranged 273.72-318.89 msec the intensity of TH should be determined as the pronounced to refer it to severe degree and evaluate as 7 and more points. The innovation increases the number of means for detecting the intensity of tension headache.

EFFECT: higher accuracy of detection.

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