Journal article
The Migraine Aura: A Problem for Vision Theory?
Abstract
The scintillating zigzag pattern that a migraine patient may see as an illusion before the onset of headache offers a unique investigative approach to visual mechanisms. The likeliest interpretation of these zigzags is that they are the spontaneous discharges of the orientation-selective neurons first described in the striate cortex by Hubel and Wiesel (Hubel DH, Wiesel TN. Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in …
Authors
McComas AJ; Upton ARM
Journal
Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 347–355
Publisher
Begell House
Publication Date
2016
DOI
10.1615/critrevbiomedeng.2017020607
ISSN
0278-940X