Comparative investigation of personality traits in migraine patients and sound people by personality MMPI questionaire.

Aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between migraine attacks and mental disorders.mental disorders is that disorders which assessed by Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI), and migrain predicated to transient ischemic attacks. The investigation hypothesis was: tendency to mental disorders assessed by MMPI in migraine patients is mor than normal population.fortesting hypothesis 66 persons diagnosed as migraine patient selected on medicine dosiers and compared with 66 sound person.in this study MMPI and a qustionaire related to history of migraine administered and Multivariate Analysis Of Variance (MANOVA) is used for analysis of data.results confirmed our hypothesis.migraine patients had mor tendency to mental disorders in comparative with sound persons.thisdisorders were depression,hysteria,psychopath,paranoia,psychasthenia,chizophrenia,hypomania and hypochondria.totally results similar to former studies supported our hypothesis and this differences are significant in statistical viewpoint