Storm systems, heat waves, bright sunlight, even lightning — for millions of people, weather changes can bring on painful headaches.

Migraine is usually the result of a perfect storm of factors: genetic susceptibility, hormones, stress, sleep, food and even ...

Imagine you’re enjoying a cloudy morning, and suddenly the sun bursts through, flooding your world with brilliant light. For ...

Visual symptoms like auras or flashing lights, may be signs of an ocular migraine. If you’re wondering, “Why am I suddenly. You’re going about your normal day (and by normal, ...

Ocular migraine causes and triggers include reading small text, harsh lights, being tired, or not drinking enough water. Genetics is also a major cause of ocular migraines, as they tend to run in ...

Because these kinds of migraines aren't talked about very often, you might be wondering what they are — and if you've had a visual migraine without realizing it. Stress no more: here's ...

Ocular migraine is a general, catch-all term that’s often used interchangeably with ophthalmic migraine and visual migraine. All refer to recurring attacks of short-lived visual symptoms, ...

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...

Ocular migraines are “a different entity,” Dr. Banik says, “and even many doctors get it confused." With an ocular migraine, the visual distortion happens in just one eye, and it won't "that ...

Ocular migraine sometimes is used as a synonym for the medical term "retinal migraine." A retinal migraine is a rare condition occurring in a person who has experienced other symptoms of migraine.

Ocular migraines, like other types of migraines, tend to run in families. "People are born with a hereditary predisposition to having a hyper-excitable brain which underlies migraine," Hindiyeh says.