The Visual Snow Initiative (VSI)

Visual Snow Initiative (VSI) works to increase public and medical community awareness about Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS). They strive to educate people about the condition, its symptoms, and its impact on the lives of those affected. The organisation supports and funds research aimed at understanding the underlying mechanisms of Visual Snow Syndrome, developing effective treatments, and finding a potential cure.

VSS is a neurological condition that affects 2-3% of the world’s population. The hallmark symptom of VSS is characterised by a continuous visual disturbance that resembles static or snow, flickering dots in one’s field of vision 24/7 with their eyes opened or closed. VSS also entails a constellation of other potentially debilitating visual and nonvisual symptoms including but not limited to seeing after images, flashes of light, starbursts and or halos around brightly lit objects. Nonvisual symptoms include tinnitus, depersonalisation, anxiety, depression and brain fog just to name a few.