TELEVISION EPILEPSY

Authors
PETRUKHIN AS MUKHIN KY KOLPAKCHI LM GLYZOVA KI VOLCHENKOVA MM
Citation
As. Petrukhin et al., TELEVISION EPILEPSY, Zurnal nevropatologii i psihiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova, 97(7), 1997, pp. 13-16
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Pathology,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Zurnal nevropatologii i psihiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova → ACNP
ISSN journal
00444588
Volume
97
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
13 - 16
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-4588(1997)97:7<13:TE>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Television epilepsy (TE) appear to be the variation of photosensitive epilepsy when the fits are provoked by watching TV. 23 patients aged 6 -20 years were observed (8-men, 15 women). TE included epilepsy with g eneralized convulsive fits (34,8%), juvenile absence-epilepsy (17,4%), juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (30,4%), children absence-epilepsy (13,0% ) and parcial occipital epilepsy (4,4%). ''Pure'' TE was diagnosed in 26,1% of patients, while the combined TE-in 73,9%. Diagnostic criteria of the syndrome of ''pure'' TE were formulated.