Diagnostic criteria for migraine with typical aura according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders Second Edition (ICHD-2)9
| (A) At least two attacks fulfilling criteria (B)–(D) |
| (B) Aura consisting of at least one of the following but no motor weakness: |
| Fully reversible visual symptoms including positive features (that is, flickering lights, spots, lines) and/or negative features (scotoma) |
| Fully reversible sensory symptoms including positive features (that is, pins and needles) and/or negative features (numbness) |
| Fully reversible dysphasic speech disturbance |
| (C) At least two of the following: |
| Homonymous visual symptoms and/or unilateral sensory symptoms |
| At least one aura symptom develops gradually over ⩾5 minutes and/or different symptoms occur in succession over ⩾5 minutes |
| Each symptom lasts ⩾5 minutes and ⩽60 minutes |
| (D) This criterion determines the subdiagnosis of migraine with typical aura: |
| 1.2.1 Typical aura with migraine headache: Headache fulfilling criteria B–D for 1.1 Migraine without aura begins during the aura or follows aura within 60 minutes, or |
| 1.2.2 Typical aura with non-migraine headache: Headache that does not fulfil criteria B–D for 1.1 Migraine without aura begins during the aura or follows aura within 60 minutes, or |
| 1.2.3 Typical aura without headache: Headache does not occur during the aura nor follow aura within 60 minutes |
| (E) Not attributed to another disorder |