How hallucinatory art led to a better understanding of migraine neurobiology

I had several of these a decade ago, and at the time my research identified them as a “scintillating scotoma.”

Never any headache, just the display. It only happened two or three times, but it really freaked me out the first time… I was worried I had detached a retina. A quick examination of the cited paper showed that they also used the term scotoma.

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