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Photosensitive epilepsy | Photosensitive epilepsy occurs in patients who experience seizures when presented with flashing lights. In 1997, thousands of children reported being affected by watching a pokemon episode in Japan. While many these symptoms did not turn out to be seizures, 700 of these children did experience epileptic seizures caused by flashing lights in this pokemon episode [1]. | ||
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Photosensitive epilepsy affects 10% of children who have been diagnosed with epilepsy, while only 4% of adults affected by epilepsy suffer seizures triggered by visual stimuli [2]. Not all visual stimuli are equally linked to photosensitive epilepsy. Rapid red lights flashing are more likely to trigger photosensitive epileptic seizures, perhaps due to how they stimulate red cones [3]. Additionally, multicolor modulations are also highly epileptic, specially red and blue modulations at 15 hz [2]. | |||
== Background == | == Background == | ||
Revision as of 20:55, 12 December 2017
Project Title
Simulation of Cone Responses for Photosensitive Epilepsy
Introduction
Photosensitive epilepsy occurs in patients who experience seizures when presented with flashing lights. In 1997, thousands of children reported being affected by watching a pokemon episode in Japan. While many these symptoms did not turn out to be seizures, 700 of these children did experience epileptic seizures caused by flashing lights in this pokemon episode [1].
Photosensitive epilepsy affects 10% of children who have been diagnosed with epilepsy, while only 4% of adults affected by epilepsy suffer seizures triggered by visual stimuli [2]. Not all visual stimuli are equally linked to photosensitive epilepsy. Rapid red lights flashing are more likely to trigger photosensitive epileptic seizures, perhaps due to how they stimulate red cones [3]. Additionally, multicolor modulations are also highly epileptic, specially red and blue modulations at 15 hz [2].
Background
Appendix
References
[1] Radford, B., & Bartholomew, R. (2001). Pokémon contagion: photosensitive epilepsy or mass psychogenic illness?. Southern medical journal, 94(2), 197-204.
[2] Parra, J. (2017). Epileptic Photosensitivity: Towards Implementation of Preventative Measures. In Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II(pp. 103-106). Springer International Publishing.
[3] Harding, G. R. (1998). TV can be bad for your health. Nature medicine, 4(3), 265-267.
[4] Fisher, R. S., Harding, G., Erba, G., Barkley, G. L., & Wilkins, A. (2005). Photic‐and pattern‐induced seizures: a review for the Epilepsy Foundation of America Working Group. Epilepsia, 46(9), 1426-1441.
[5] Kasteleijn-Nolst-Trenité, unpublished data.