Occipital Lobe Epilepsy with Scotosensitive Seizures: The Role of Central Vision
- 1 February 1984
- Vol. 25 (1) , 115-120
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-1157.1984.tb04164.x
Abstract
Summary: In four cases of occipital lobe epilepsy, clinical seizures and EEG discharges were evoked by darkness and/or closed eyes. In all cases the inducing factor was represented by the abolition of central vision. The importance of central vision in the excitation‐inhibition process of the occipital EEG discharges is emphasized in light of the anatomophysiological organization of the visual system. Scotosensitive epilepsy and benign partial epilepsy of childhood with occipital spike‐waves may represent the same clinical entity.Keywords
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