Table 3 Clinical characteristics of visual aura in migraine and epilepsy (The table should be placed at the end of the subchapter “Auras”)
From: Migraine - a borderland disease to epilepsy: near it but not of it
Migraine | Epilepsy | |
|---|---|---|
Duration | > 5 min | < 5 min |
Onset of symptoms | Slowly progressing | Sudden |
Accompanying symptoms | Headache, Nausea and Vomiting, Photo- and Phonophobia | Seizures, other auras |
Visual field | Showing centrifugal or centripetal spread | Restricted to one hemifield |