Mechanisms of Photosensitive Epilepsies

Abstract

Intermittent photic stimulation was performed in 21 photosensitive epileptic patients and the relation of the photoparoxysmal response (PPR) to the epilepsy syndrome was determined in a study at the National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Higashi Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan.

Keywords

• photoparoxysmal response
• pathophysiologic mechanism
• epilepsy syndrome classification