Dr. Airy's "morbid affection of the eyesight": Lessons from teichopsia circa 1870

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Abstract

Hubert Airy's iconic drawing of his own migraine visual aura for which he coined the term, "teichopsia," conveys important lessons for the contemporary clinician. His observations of the expansion ("build-up") , minification/magnification, and color/achromatopsia of migrainous teichopsia are consistent with (and possibly anticipatory of) the later discoveries of cortical spreading depression, cortical magnification of primary visual cortex (V1), and specialized cortical centers for color vision.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)311-314
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Neuro-Ophthalmology
Volume34
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Ophthalmology
  • Clinical Neurology

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