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Aura (symptom)

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An aura is a perceptual disturbance experienced by some with migraines or seizures before either the headache or seizure begins. [1]

35 relations: Abdominal aura, Acephalgic migraine, Amplitude modulation, Anxiety, Aphasia, Auditory cortex, Auditory hallucination, Blind spot (vision), CADASIL, Cerebral infarction, Déjà vu, Derealization, Differential diagnosis, Dissociation (psychology), Epileptic seizure, Focal seizure, Hallucination, Hemiparesis, Jamais vu, Kaleidoscope, Migraine, Motor cortex, Neurology, Panic attack, Paresthesia, Persistent aura without infarction, Phantosmia, Primary somatosensory cortex, Scintillating scotoma, Scotoma, Synesthesia, Tremolo, Tunnel vision, Visual cortex, Zigzag.

Abdominal aura

Abdominal aura (also known as visceral aura and epigastric aura) is used to denote a type of somatosensory or somaesthetic aura that typically manifests itself as a rising epigastric sensation.

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Acephalgic migraine

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

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Amplitude modulation

Amplitude modulation (AM) is a modulation technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave.

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Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination.

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Aphasia

Aphasia is an inability to comprehend and formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions.

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Auditory cortex

The primary auditory cortex is the part of the temporal lobe that processes auditory information in humans and other vertebrates.

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Auditory hallucination

A paracusia, or auditory hallucination, is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus.

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Blind spot (vision)

A blind spot, scotoma, is an obscurity of the visual field.

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CADASIL

CADASIL or CADASIL syndrome, involving cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy, is the most common form of hereditary stroke disorder, and is thought to be caused by mutations of the Notch 3 gene on chromosome 19.

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Cerebral infarction

A cerebral infarction is an area of necrotic tissue in the brain resulting from a blockage or narrowing in the arteries supplying blood and oxygen to the brain.

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Déjà vu

Déjà vu is the feeling that the situation currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past.

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Derealization

Derealization (sometimes abbreviated as DR) is an alteration in the perception or experience of the external world so that it seems unreal.

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Differential diagnosis

In medicine, a differential diagnosis is the distinguishing of a particular disease or condition from others that present similar clinical features.

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Dissociation (psychology)

In psychology, dissociation is any of a wide array of experiences from mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experiences.

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Epileptic seizure

An epileptic seizure is a brief episode of signs or symptoms due to abnormally excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.

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Focal seizure

Focal seizures (also called partial seizures and localized seizures) are seizures which affect initially only one hemisphere of the brain.

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Hallucination

A hallucination is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception.

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Hemiparesis

Hemiparesis, or unilateral paresis, is weakness of one entire side of the body (hemi- means "half").

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Jamais vu

In psychology, jamais vu, a French borrowing meaning "never seen", refers to the phenomenon of experiencing a situation that one recognizes in some fashion, but nonetheless seems very unfamiliar.

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Kaleidoscope

A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces tilted to each other in an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of the mirrors are seen as a regular symmetrical pattern when viewed from the other end, due to repeated reflection.

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Migraine

A migraine is a primary headache disorder characterized by recurrent headaches that are moderate to severe.

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Motor cortex

The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements.

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Neurology

Neurology (from νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system.

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Panic attack

Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense fear that may include palpitations, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath, numbness, or a feeling that something bad is going to happen.

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Paresthesia

Paresthesia is an abnormal sensation such as tingling, tickling, pricking, numbness or burning of a person's skin with no apparent physical cause.

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Persistent aura without infarction

Persistent aura without infarction (PAWOI) is a little-known condition, first described under the designation prolonged migraine aura status, that is not yet fully understood.

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Phantosmia

Phantosmia (phantom smell) -->, also called an olfactory hallucination, is smelling an odor that is not actually there.

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Primary somatosensory cortex

The primary somatosensory cortex is located in the postcentral gyrus, and is part of the somatosensory system.

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Scintillating scotoma

Scintillating scotoma, also called visual migraine, is the most common visual aura preceding migraine and was first described by 19th-century physician Hubert Airy (1838–1903).

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Scotoma

A scotoma (Greek σκότος/skótos, darkness; plural: scotomas or scotomata) is an area of partial alteration in the field of vision consisting of a partially diminished or entirely degenerated visual acuity that is surrounded by a field of normal – or relatively well-preserved – vision.

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Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.

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Tremolo

In music, tremolo, or tremolando, is a trembling effect.

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Tunnel vision

Tunnel vision (also known as "Kalnienk vision") is the loss of peripheral vision with retention of central vision, resulting in a constricted circular tunnel-like field of vision.

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Visual cortex

The visual cortex of the brain is a part of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information.

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Zigzag

A zigzag is a pattern made up of small corners at variable angles, though constant within the zigzag, tracing a path between two parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(symptom)

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