Visual aura of migraine versus visual occipital lobe seizures

They have also found that in some patients migraine visual aura may develop quickly, is short and may have multicoloured or rounded features. Nothing of this is new, as documented in numerous prospective and retrospective studies (cited by the authors), as well as illustrations of visual aura of migraine by patients (3). My particular concern is that the authors isolate some features of migraine visual aura such as colour to question the differential criteria between the visual aura of migraine and visual occipital epileptic seizures. It should be remembered that: