Two cases are reported of boys who suffer epileptic seizures only after playing video games. It is suggested that the amount of time the patient spends in front of the screen before the seizure is important, and also that video games trigger electrocortical activity far more efficiently than either television or intermittent photic stimulation.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Stutchfield1985
%A Stutchfield, P.
%A Edwards, M. A.
%A Gray, R. G.
%A Crawley, P.
%A Green, A.
%D 1985
%J Dev Med Child Neurol
%K Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors; Brain Diseases, Metabolic; Cerebral Palsy; Child; Child, Preschool; Diagnostic Follow-Up Studies; Glutarates; Humans; Infant; Leigh Disease; Male
%N 4
%P 514--518
%T Glutaric aciduria type I misdiagnosed as Leigh's encephalopathy and cerebral palsy.
%V 27
%X Two cases are reported of boys who suffer epileptic seizures only after playing video games. It is suggested that the amount of time the patient spends in front of the screen before the seizure is important, and also that video games trigger electrocortical activity far more efficiently than either television or intermittent photic stimulation.
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abstract = {Two cases are reported of boys who suffer epileptic seizures only after playing video games. It is suggested that the amount of time the patient spends in front of the screen before the seizure is important, and also that video games trigger electrocortical activity far more efficiently than either television or intermittent photic stimulation.},
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author = {Stutchfield, P. and Edwards, M. A. and Gray, R. G. and Crawley, P. and Green, A.},
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keywords = {Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors; Brain Diseases, Metabolic; Cerebral Palsy; Child; Child, Preschool; Diagnostic Follow-Up Studies; Glutarates; Humans; Infant; Leigh Disease; Male},
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title = {Glutaric aciduria type I misdiagnosed as Leigh's encephalopathy and cerebral palsy.},
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