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What type of visual disturbance qualifies as a visual aura?

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Neurology · Barrow Neurological Institute

Visual aura should be a time-limited neurologic event (5 minutes to 60 minutes) with or without migraine headache. It can contain positive (e.g., flashes of light) and/or negative (e.g., scotoma) visual phenomena. It is often toward one side of the visual field but is binocular (comes from both eyes...

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Neurology · Greater Boston Headache Center at Boston Advanced Medicine

As a neurologist, my definition of migraine aura is that it concerns transient focal neurological symptoms. This means that the symptoms are neurological, localizable, and transient. If they are not transient and we still think of them as migraine aura, we call them migraine aura status.

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