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Dr. Airys Morbid Affection of the Eyesight: Lessons From Teichopsia Circa 1870

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Title Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, September 2014, Volume 34, Issue 3
Date 2014-09
Language eng
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Type Text
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kh3tdd

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Title Dr. Airys Morbid Affection of the Eyesight: Lessons From Teichopsia Circa 1870
Creator Frederick E. Lepore
Affiliation Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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.
Subject Older people; Astronomy; England; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Humans; Male; Migraine with Aura; Physicians; Vision Disorders; Visual Cortex
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Format application/pdf
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 227623
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kh3tdd/227623