Abstract:Thirty-two migraineurs without aura and the same number of age and sexmatched normal controls were examined in the interictal period by ERP and psychological assessments including Eysenck Personality Questionnaire,Jenkins Activity Survey and Selfrating Anxiety and Depression Scales. The migraineurs had significantly higher scores on SAS,SDS,the neuroticism of EPQ and CH of,JAS.Lower amplitudes of N_2 and P_3 in auditory P300 were also found. Only the TH scores of JAS were significantly decreased when the clinical symptoms improved after treatment, the mechanism of which remained to be clarified. These findings supported the hypothesis that specific personality and emotional changes did exist in migraine. Besides, mild cognitive changes were also present.Since the personali ty and emotional changes were closely related with other and the cognitive dysfunction was not parallel with them, the emotional changes are considered either as a part of the causative factors of migraine or having the similar etiologic causes as that of migraine, while the cognitive dysfunction is, most probably,the result of headache. In short, this study indicates that the psychological factor should be emphasized in the management of migraine.