Seizures triggered by blinking in a non-photosensitive epileptic.
- 1 April 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 49 (4) , 445-447
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.49.4.445
Abstract
An epileptic girl with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome had seizures triggered specifically by blinking, but not by other eye movements or by photic stimulation. Electrographic and clinical seizures were most reliably precipitated by repetitive blinking produced voluntarily on command, by reflex blinking on corneal stimulation, or by psychogenic triggers of blinking such as social stress or cognitive effort.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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