The terms retinal migraine and ocular migraine are often confused with visual migraine, which is a far-more-common symptom of vision loss, resulting from the aura phase of the common migraine. The aura phase of migraine can occur with or without a headache.
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  mentalism(Noun) The doctrine that physical reality exists only because of the mind's awareness. 2  mentalism(Noun) Activities such as mind reading, especially when used by performers.
Functionalism is a theory of the mind that claims to tell us the fundamental nature of our mental states. Your mental states include everything from your fear of heights to your belief that it is Tuesday, from your desire to eat an ice cream cone to the sharp pain in your leg.n this section we will explore the most influential contemporary theory of the mind: functionalism. It is an empirical theory that has spawned a massive research effort that will, if it fulfills its promise, explain much about the mind that presently remains beyond our understanding.