Photosensitive and nonphotosensitive electronic screen game-induced seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 9 SUPPL. 4, 1999, Pages 8-16

  Inoue, Yushi ^a   Fukao, Kenjiro ^a   Araki, Takehisa ^a   Yamamoto, Shinobu ^a   Kubota, Hidemoto ^a   Watanabe, Yutaka ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electronic screen game induced seizures; Intracranial EEG; Magnetoencephalography; Photosensitivity; Praxis sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; NITRAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTRONICS; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032856175     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00900.x     Document Type: Article

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