A Field Guide to Symptoms
Browse a complete catalogue of migraine aura symptoms — transitory and persistent — in plain language.
Open the guide → A foundation built from patient voices
Make your migraine visible.
Migraine aura often begins where words fail — in flickering light, numbness, lost speech, distorted time. We translate that experience into the formal language of diagnosis, so you can be understood.
Turn your symptoms into a clear report you can share with your doctor.
For over 25 years we have listened, gathered, and named what migraine does — building one of the world's most comprehensive records of aura.
- 7,000+
- First-hand accounts of aura collected from people with migraine
- 1998
- Gathering and naming aura symptoms since
- 75+
- Peer-reviewed publications and book chapters
Four ways in
Whether you are trying to name what you feel, prepare for an appointment, or understand a loved one's experience — start here.
Revealing Experiences
Art and stories that make migraine's hidden impact visible — to families, clinicians, and yourself.
See the gallery →The Aura Check
A guided 10-minute anamnesis that turns what you experience into a structured report for your doctor.
Start the check →Next-gen Migraine Care
Evidence-based tools and research for clinicians and partners building what comes next.
For professionals → Revealing experiences
When words fail, people paint.
Since the 1990s, patients have sent us paintings, drawings, and writing that capture what aura feels like from the inside. Together they form a living archive — proof that these symptoms are real, shared, and nameable.
Explore the archive→
It makes you feel less alone
I never thought I'd live to see the day that describing visual and other sensory disturbances could be discussed openly and without shame.
The stories you've shared almost reduced me to tears. I see myself in their words.
Your website helped me understand my daughter's frightening first aura — she thought she saw a ghost.
It makes you feel less alone — I don't know anyone else who suffers from similar symptoms.
It is comforting to see that the symptoms I experience are also described by other affected individuals.
I decided to embrace my migraine and base my art practice on it.
For healthcare professionals
Co-create next-generation migraine care.
We equip clinicians and industry partners with evidence-based tools, research, and patient-derived data for every stage of migraine care — from first aura to long-term management.
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