Seizures triggered by blinking in a non-photosensitive epileptic.

نویسندگان

  • R D Rafal
  • K D Laxer
  • J S Janowsky
چکیده

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.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

دوره 49 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1986