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Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and idiopathic photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy: is there overlap?
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Aug 2004
Taylor Isabella, Marini Carla, Johnson Michael R, Turner Samantha, Berkovic Samuel F, Scheffer Ingrid E
Abstract excerpt
Although epileptic photosensitivity is well known, its genetics and syndromic associations are incompletely understood. Seizures triggered by photic stimulation are usually a manifestation of the idiopathic generalized epilepsies, especially juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), or of the occipital epilepsies. Idiopathic photosensitive occipital epilepsy (IPOE) is a focal epilepsy with colourful elementary visual...
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