Visual snow syndrome: is it normal or a disorder - and what to do with patients?

C J Schankin¹, F Puledda^{2

3}, P J Goadsby^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Headache Group, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
³ NIHR-Wellcome Trust King's Clinical Research Facility, SLaM Biomedical Research Center, King's College London, London, UK.

Comment

C J Schankin et al. Eur J Neurol. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;27(12):2393-2395.

doi: 10.1111/ene.14436. Epub 2020 Aug 8.

C J Schankin¹, F Puledda^{2

3}, P J Goadsby^{2

3}

¹ Department of Neurology, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Headache Group, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
³ NIHR-Wellcome Trust King's Clinical Research Facility, SLaM Biomedical Research Center, King's College London, London, UK.

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Prevalence of visual snow syndrome in the UK.
Kondziella D, Olsen MH, Dreier JP. Kondziella D, et al. Eur J Neurol. 2020 May;27(5):764-772. doi: 10.1111/ene.14150. Epub 2020 Feb 23. Eur J Neurol. 2020. PMID: 31999855

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