acephalgic migraine

Visual snow might be a form of acephalgic migraine.

Acephalgic migraines can occur in individuals of any age.

It may occur as an isolated symptom without headache in acephalgic migraine.

Among women, incidents of acephalgic migraine increase during perimenopause.

Acephalgic migraines typically do not persist more than a few hours and may last for as little as 15 seconds.

Unlike other migraines, males have Acephalgic migraines more often then women do.

The prevention and treatment of acephalgic migraine is broadly the same as for classical migraine.

Acephalgic migraines may resemble transient ischemic attacks or, when longer in duration, stroke.

Individuals who experience acephalgic migraines in childhood are highly likely to develop typical migraines as they grow older.

Acephalgic migraine is a neurological syndrome.

Sufferers of acephalgic migraine are more likely than the general population to develop classical migraine with headache.

Acephalgic migraine also called a 'Silent migraine' is a kind of migraine with aura but without the head pain.

Though there are some individuals-more commonly male-who only experience acephalgic migraine, frequently patients also experience migraine with headache.

Occasionally, patients with acephalgic migraine are misdiagnosed as suffering epilepsy with visual seizures, but the reverse misdiagnosis is more common.

Acephalgic migraine is also referred to as amigrainous migraine, ocular migraine, ophthalmic migraine or optical migraine, last three being misnomers.

Acephalgic migraine (also called acephalalgic migraine, migraine aura without headache, amigrainous migraine, isolated visual migraine and optical migraine) is a neurological syndrome.

Symptoms typically appear gradually over 5 to 20 minutes and generally last fewer than 60 minutes, leading to the headache in classic migraine with aura, or resolving without consequence in acephalgic migraine.

An acephalgic migraine may cause neurologic dysfunction in some people, which is when parts of the brain does not function right, and causes different kinds of problems, such as seeing flashing lights or having blind spots, where nothing can be seen.

Although not listed as such in the International Classification of Headache Disorders, pediatric acephalgic migraines are listed along with other childhood periodic syndromes by W.A. Al-Twaijri and M.I. Shevell as "migraine equivalents", which can be good predictors of the future development of typical migraines.