Occipital Lobe Epilepsy with Scotosensitive Seizures: The Role of Central Vision
- 1 February 1984
- Vol. 25 (1), 115-120
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-1157.1984.tb04164.x
Abstract
In 4 cases of occipital lobe epilepsy, clinical seizures and EEG discharges were evoked by darkness and/or closed eyes. In all cases the inducing factor was represented by the abolition of central vision. The importance of central vision in the excitation-inhibition process of the occipital EEG discharges is emphasized in light of the anatomophysiological organization of the visual system. Scotosensitive epilepsy and benign partial epilepsy of childhood with occipital spike-waves may represent the same clinical entity.Keywords
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