Directory of Photosensitive Resources

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Information on photosensitive epilepsy, a condition in which seizures are triggered by flickering or intermittent light stimulation.

Resources in This Category

• Photosensitive Epilepsy

  http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/photosensitive/intro
  Article from the British Epilepsy Association discussing photosensitive seizures in relation to television, as well as other possible triggers.

• Reflex epilepsy and reflex seizures of the visual system: a clinical review - Epileptic Disorders

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11022137
  Abstract of paper by Benjamin G. Zifkin and Dorothée Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité. Published in Epileptic Disorders.

• [CNN] Cartoon-based illness mystifies Japan

  http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/17/japan.cartoon/
  News story on a rash of seizures during the broadcast of a Pokemon cartoon.

 

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