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Television And Epilepsy
M. H. CHARLTON, MD;
PAUL F. A. HOEFER, MD
Arch Neurol. 1964;11(3):239-247.
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Introduction
Visual stimuli of various types have long been known to precipitate epileptic attacks. The best known of these stimuli are those consisting of a flickering light, such as the potter's wheel,1 the rotating blades of a helicopter,2 or the shafts of light which strike a driver along a tree-lined road.3 Less frequent as precipitants are the sudden access of bright light (as when a patient suddenly looks upon bright snow),4 or more complexly patterned stimuli, such as those described by Bickford et al.5
It was not long before television-viewing was inculpated as a precipitant of epileptic attacks. Of the adequately reported cases, 55* are in the European literature,6-16 and only three in the United States.17 It is the purpose of the present paper to add nine new cases from the United States, to examine the factors responsible for the production of "television-epilepsy,"
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Author Affiliations
NEW YORK
From the Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and the Neurological Institute, Presbyterian Hospital, New York.
Footnotes
Read at meeting of Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers, Ste.-Adèle, Quebec, March, 1964.
Instructor in Neurology (Dr. Charlton); Professor of Neurology (Dr. Hoe fer), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
This figure was arrived at by accepting only those nine of his cases in which Gastaut himself felt that television was the specific precipitant.
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