Depictions of Migraine Aura

Timothy C. Hain, MD Page last modified: June 18, 2009

Migraine auras, which are often very colorful, structured, and have strong emotional connotations, have long been interesting to artists.

The first set of pictures below are those drawn by one of Dr. Hain's patients with migraine, Ina Rubloff, represent the aura.

helloyellow	Not again	plight2

plight	what bright eyes you have

More Migraine Art, by patient SP.

Visual Snow (Migraine aura)

Dizzy Coleus

If you are one of my patients and you have some migraine art to show to the world, please send it to me !

Copyright (c) Timothy C. Hain, 1998-2006

Other information:

• Sandoz pharmaceuticals publishes a book of artist depictions of Migraine aura.
• Dr. Klaus Podoll has a site about Migraine Art.
• Interesting material about art in epilepsy is found here.