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Photosensitivity

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Genetics of the Epilepsies

Abstract

Since the introduction of photostimulation as a method of activation into clinical electroencephalography, as well as since the first description of the enhanced electroencephalographic response to light stimuli, i.e., the photoparoxysmal (photoconvulsive) and the photomyogenic (photomyoclonic) reactions, there has been much literature published describing under what conditions these responses are observed, their various manifestations, and in recent years, their clinical relevance.

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  1. Klinik für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Medizinische Akademie, Leipziger Str. 44, DDR-3090, Magdeburg, Germany

    H. Klepel

  2. Nervenklinik der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, DDR-2300, Greifswald, Germany

    G. Rabending

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  1. Neurologische Abteilung, Universitätsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Freie Universität Berlin, Spandauer Damm 130, D-1000, Berlin 19, Germany

    Gertrud Beck-Mannagetta M.D. (Assistant Professor of Neurology) & Dieter Janz M.D. (Professor of Neurology) (Assistant Professor of Neurology) &  (Professor of Neurology)

  2. Dight Laboratories, University of Minnesota, 400 Church Street S.E., 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    V. Elving Anderson M.D. (Professor of Genetics and Cell Biology) (Professor of Genetics and Cell Biology)

  3. Abteilung für Neuropädiatrie, Universität Kiel, Schwanenweg 20, D-2300, Kiel, Germany

    Hermann Doose M.D. (Professor of Pediatrics) (Professor of Pediatrics)

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Klepel, H., Rabending, G. (1989). Photosensitivity. In: Beck-Mannagetta, G., Anderson, V.E., Doose, H., Janz, D. (eds) Genetics of the Epilepsies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95553-2_14

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