This page tracks new and upcoming treatment options for visual snow (VS). What’s in development? What’s promising? What’s available soon? Current topics include Tsang/Shidlofsky protocol, gamma light therapy, Visual Imagery Project (VIP), neuromodulation, rTMS, oculomotor-based vision therapy, Fielding/White team, and more.
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- Visual Snow Initiative (VSI) and Misdiagnosis Association and Research Institution (MARI) team up to promote VSS awareness to the international medical community and healthcare professionals… Jan 10, 2022
- VSI: Mayo Clinic Acknowledges Visual Snow Syndrome — “Mayo Clinic Minute: Visual Snow” Dec 5, 2021
- Mayo Clinic Minute: Visual snow Dec 3, 2021
- Visual snow: Alarming and not uncommon Nov 29, 2021
- Short-Wave Sensitive (“Blue”) Cone Activation Is an Aggravating Factor for Visual Snow Symptoms Aug 19, 2021
- University of Colorado Researchers Initiate Clinical Trial of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Visual Snow Syndrome Jun 22, 2021
- Researchers in Switzerland Initiate Clinical Trial for Downregulating Visual Cortex Activity in Visual Snow Syndrome May 26, 2021
- Dr. Owen White answers the question: “What excites you the most about visual snow research in 2021?” [video] Apr 27, 2021
- A message from Dr. Charles Shidlofsky to the Visual Snow Community [video] Apr 1, 2021
- Reddit User Creates Open-Source “VS Relief Overlay” App That *Might* Help Improve Visual Snow Symptoms Jan 23, 2021
- Breakthrough In Diagnosing VSS Nov 25, 2020
- Sierra Domb and Dr Peter Goadsby discuss “Visual Snow and Tinnitus: Phantom Phenomena” – via Tinnitus Talk [PDF] Oct 9, 2020
- Visual Snow Initiative Funding of the MBCT-Vision Study at St. Thomas’ London Oct 2, 2020
- University student creates nonprofit to support research on Visual Snow Syndrome Sep 14, 2020
- Discovery of “behavioral signature” in visual snow syndrome could pave way for targeted treatments… Sep 10, 2020
- New October 2020 Visual Snow Study Announced: Tsang/Shidlofsky Working on Enhanced Protocol to Treat VSS Sep 2, 2020
- UPDATE: Visual Snow Initiative releases more video interviews with world’s leading visual snow experts… Sep 1, 2020
- Visual snow researcher at Monash University invites people with visual snow to participate in newest VSS study… Aug 24, 2020
- Abnormal visual processing within the ventral visual stream may play a role in the pathogenesis of visual snow syndrome, study finds Aug 16, 2020
- Multiple Events May Trigger Visual Snow Jun 30, 2020
- The Visual Snow Initiative releases the Visual Imagery Project (VIP): a 21-day online protocol investigating the use of customized visual imagery to reduce visual snow symptoms May 7, 2020
- VSI Research Team At Monash University Shares Impact Report Apr 24, 2020
- New research: “Visual snow requires a thorough ophthalmologic exam to exclude other ocular diseases” Apr 9, 2020
- VIDEO: Structural and functional footprint of visual snow syndrome Mar 26, 2020
- Current Observations on Visual Snow Syndrome by Dr. Owen White Feb 20, 2020
- Visual Snow is Real — and migraine, tinnitus are frequent comorbidities Jan 24, 2020
- New clinical trial to treat patients with debilitating symptoms of visual snow (VS) Dec 16, 2019
- For Those Waiting for the Visual Snow Initiative’s Project (VIP) Launch Dec 9, 2019
- Study: For some patients with visual snow, lamotrigine resulted in partial remission of symptoms Jun 21, 2019
- Visual Snow Featured On CBS’ The Doctors May 15, 2019
- Neurophysiological Exams Reveal Habituation Loss in Visual Snow Syndrome Apr 25, 2019
- Professor Joanne Fielding: “Visual Snow: what we know and don’t know” (Video Presentation) Apr 3, 2019
- The Visual Snow Initiative Set Its Sights on a Cure for All Mar 24, 2019
- VIDEO: Melbourne researchers are conducting a world-leading study into the mysterious illness known as ‘visual snow’ Mar 22, 2019
- New assessment tool allows researchers to detect and measure Visual Snow Syndrome in patients Mar 11, 2019
- Visual Snow Initiative Raises $140,000 For Visual Snow Research At Monash University Feb 5, 2019
- Visual Snow Researchers Seeking Volunteers Feb 4, 2019
- A $140,000 donation kicks off research for Visual Snow Feb 1, 2019
- Visual snow: understanding the neurological condition Oct 26, 2018
- Dave wasn’t going crazy, his fuzzy vision was caused by ‘visual snow’ Aug 30, 2018
- Visual Snow Initiative Collaborates with MIT for New Research on Visual Snow Syndrome May 24, 2018
- First ever Visual Snow Conference will take place on Saturday, May 5, 2018 in Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF Apr 20, 2018
- Visual Snow: seeing the world as if it is a static-filled, analog TV Dec 4, 2017
Research
- Historical, Diagnostic, and Chromatic Treatment in Visual Snow Syndrome: A Retrospective Analysis Apr 13, 2023
- Differential Diagnosis of Visual Phenomena Associated with Migraine: Spotlight on Aura and Visual Snow Syndrome Jan 9, 2023
- Age- and frequency-dependent changes in dynamic contrast perception in visual snow syndrome Dec 11, 2021
- Distinct Patterns of P1 and C2 VEP Potentiation and Attenuation in Visual Snow: A Case Report Nov 17, 2021
- Evaluation of treatment response and symptom progression in 400 patients with visual snow syndrome Oct 16, 2021
- Visual Snow Syndrome as a Network Disorder: A Systematic Review Oct 4, 2021
- Short-Wave Sensitive (“Blue”) Cone Activation Is an Aggravating Factor for Visual Snow Symptoms Aug 19, 2021
- Localised increase in regional cerebral perfusion in patients with visual snow syndrome Jul 14, 2021
- Visual Snow-Like Symptoms and Posterior Uveitis following COVID-19 Infection May 29, 2021
- A case of visual snow treated with phenylephrine May 21, 2021
- Cortical Oscillatory Dysrhythmias in Visual Snow Syndrome: A MEG Study May 18, 2021
- Migraine prevalence in visual snow with prior illicit drug use (Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder) versus without May 12, 2021
- White matter abnormalities in a patient with Visual Snow syndrome: new evidence from a Diffusion tensor imaging study May 6, 2021
- Eye movement characteristics provide an objective measure of visual processing changes in patients with visual snow syndrome May 5, 2021
- Visual snow syndrome – a pixelated vision [German Language] May 5, 2021
- Magnetic Suppression of Perceptual Accuracy Is Not Reduced in Visual Snow Syndrome May 4, 2021
- Visual snow syndrome: evolving neuro-optometric interventions Apr 9, 2021
- Not All That Flickers Is Snow Mar 1, 2021
- Two hundred and forty-eight cases of visual snow: A review of potential inciting events and contributing comorbidities Feb 20, 2021
- Passive visual stimulation induces fatigue or improvement depending on cognitive load [Preprint] Feb 16, 2021
- Disrupted connectivity within visual, attentional and salience networks in the visual snow syndrome Jan 15, 2021
- Occipital ischaemic stroke after visual snow phenomenon – a case report Jan 12, 2021
- Abnormal Connectivity and Brain Structure in Patients With Visual Snow Nov 19, 2020
- Rhythmic modulation of visual perception by continuous rhythmic auditory stimulation [Preprint] Oct 31, 2020
- Neuro-ophthalmologic Findings in Visual Snow Syndrome Sep 25, 2020
- Visual snow syndrome after start of citalopram-novel insights into underlying pathophysiology Sep 16, 2020
- Time-dependent branching processes: a model of oscillating neuronal avalanches Aug 13, 2020
- [123I]-IMP single-photon emission computed tomography imaging in visual snow syndrome: A case series Aug 13, 2020
- Occipital cortex and cerebellum grey matter changes in visual snow syndrome Aug 5, 2020
- Ocular motor measures of visual processing changes in visual snow syndrome Jul 16, 2020
- Visual snow syndrome: is it normal or a disorder – and what to do with patients? Jul 11, 2020
- Insights into pathophysiology and treatment of visual snow syndrome: A systematic review Jun 15, 2020
- Visual Snow Case Series: Review of 248 Cases with Attention to Underlying Causes or Inciting Events [PDF] Jun 13, 2020
- Noninvasive Vagal Nerve Stimulation in a Pediatric Patient with Visual Snow Syndrome [PDF] Jun 13, 2020
- Visual snow patients show functional hyperconnectivity and structural abnormalities of brain regions involved in visual processing Jun 10, 2020
- Visual Snow: A Case Series from Israel Jun 9, 2020
- Can repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the visual cortex ameliorate the state of patients with visual snow? May 31, 2020
- Natural course of Visual Snow Syndrome: a long-term follow-up study May 23, 2020
- Feedback generates a second receptive field in neurons of the visual cortex May 20, 2020
- Mirtazapine for treatment of visual snow syndrome (no effect on VSS, neither positive nor negative): A case series with insights into pathophysiology and therapy May 20, 2020
- Synaptic ribbons foster active zone stability and illumination-dependent active zone enrichment of RIM2 and Cav1.4 in photoreceptor synapses Apr 6, 2020
- Structural and functional footprint of visual snow syndrome Mar 24, 2020
- Not All That Flickers Is Visual Snow Mar 24, 2020
- Insular and occipital changes in visual snow syndrome: a BOLD fMRI and MRS study to investigate the pathophysiology of VS Mar 10, 2020
- Dynamic dot displays reveal material motion network in the human brain [Preprint] Mar 9, 2020
- Visual snow in hallucinogen-persisting perception disorder: a case report Feb 19, 2020
- Shedding new light on visual snow syndrome Feb 18, 2020
- Additive effect of contrast and velocity suggests the role of strong excitatory drive in suppression of visual gamma response Feb 13, 2020
- Visual snow syndrome: a review on diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment Jan 31, 2020
- Prevalence of visual snow syndrome in the UK is around 2% Jan 30, 2020
- Visual Snow: Are We Beginning to See the Light? [Editorial] Jan 16, 2020
- Visual snow syndrome: A clinical and phenotypical description of 1,100 cases Jan 15, 2020
- Quantification of photophobia in visual snow syndrome: A case-control study Dec 22, 2019
- Imaging the Visual Network in the Migraine Spectrum: possible hypotheses on the underlying pathophysiology of visual snow Dec 13, 2019
- Pediatric Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS): A Case Series Dec 1, 2019
- Episodic Visual Snow Associated With Migraine Attacks Nov 25, 2019
- Colorimetric Intervention for Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS) Following Brain Surgery Nov 16, 2019
- Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder: A literature review and three case reports Oct 15, 2019
- Functionally Distinct Gamma Range Activity Revealed by Stimulus Tuning in Human Visual Cortex Oct 3, 2019
- Symptoms related to the visual system in migraine Jul 30, 2019
- Prestimulus feedback connectivity biases the content of visual experiences Jul 22, 2019
- Novel clinical features of glycine receptor antibody syndrome, including visual snow Jul 1, 2019
- Treatment effects and comorbid diseases in 58 patients with visual snow Jun 18, 2019
- Tracking functional and structural brain plasticity in patients with visual snow Jun 12, 2019
- Patients with migraines experience a wide range of visual disturbances including visual snow Apr 23, 2019
- Visual contrast threshold at 15 Hz is able to confirm visual snow syndrome in individual patients Apr 16, 2019
- Visual snow: Not so benign Mar 22, 2019
- The Clinical Characteristics and Neurophysiological Assessments of the Occipital Cortex in Visual Snow Syndrome With or Without Migraine Mar 8, 2019
- Visual Snow Is a Real Neurological Phenomenon Distinct from Migraine Jan 10, 2019
- When It Snows All Year Round – Visual Snow Jan 1, 2019
- Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder After Ibogaine Treatment for Opioid Dependence Dec 15, 2018
- Neural gain control measured through cortical gamma oscillations is associated with sensory sensitivity Dec 13, 2018
- Amitriptyline as a possible treatment option for Visual Snow Syndrome based on the hypothesis that VSS is a form of peripheral neuropathy and pituitary fatigue Dec 10, 2018
- Visual Snow: Visual Misperception Dec 1, 2018
- Evidence of dysfunction in the visual association cortex in visual snow syndrome Nov 1, 2018
- Alterations in Regional Cerebral Blood (RCBF) in Visual Snow Assessed Using Arterial Spin-Labelled (ASL) Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining (FMRI) Oct 15, 2018
- The Visual Snow Conference: May 5, 2018, University of California San Francisco Sep 1, 2018
- Visual Snow Syndrome: Proposed Criteria, Clinical Implications, and Pathophysiology Jun 22, 2018
- Visual Snow Syndrome Successfully Treated with Lamotrigine: Case Report Apr 9, 2018
- Visual snow syndrome: what we know so far Feb 1, 2018
- Antagonistic Relationship Between VEP Potentiation and Gamma Power in Visual Snow Syndrome Nov 29, 2017
- Visual Snow Syndrome and Its Relationship to Tinnitus Jun 1, 2017
- Visual Snow: a Potential Cortical Hyperexcitability Syndrome Mar 27, 2017
- Behavioral measures of cortical hyperexcitability assessed in people who experience visual snow Mar 1, 2017
- Optimal Information Representation and Criticality in an Adaptive Sensory Recurrent Neuronal Network Feb 16, 2016
- Visual snow: A thalamocortical dysrhythmia of the visual pathway? Jan 11, 2016
- Visual Snow—Persistent Positive Visual Phenomenon Distinct from Migraine Aura May 29, 2015
- The visual snow phenomenon Oct 14, 2014
- The relation between migraine, typical migraine aura and “visual snow” May 9, 2014
- ‘Visual snow’ – a disorder distinct from persistent migraine aura Mar 18, 2014
- Should ‘visual snow’ and persistence of after-images be recognised as a new visual syndrome? Mar 7, 2014
Clinical Trials
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation For Visual Snow Syndrome Jun 14, 2021
- Neurofeedback in Visual Snow May 26, 2021
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Modified for Visual Symptoms (MBCT-vision) Jun 16, 2020
- No Studies found for: Visual Snow (October 3, 2019) Oct 3, 2019
- No Studies found for: Visual Snow (September 2, 2019) Sep 2, 2019
- No Studies found for: Visual Snow (July 7, 2019) Jul 7, 2019
- No Studies found for: Visual Snow (June 21, 2019) Jun 21, 2019
- No Studies found for: Visual Snow (April 25, 2019) Apr 25, 2019
- No Studies found for: Visual Snow (March 21, 2019) Mar 21, 2019
- No Studies found for: Visual Snow (March 6, 2019) Mar 6, 2019
- No Studies found for: Visual Snow (February 11, 2019) Feb 11, 2019
