“Txt”-induced seizures indicating reading epilepsy in the mobile phone age

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Title

“Txt”-induced seizures indicating reading epilepsy in the mobile phone age

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

Description

Reading epilepsy is a rare type of reflex epilepsy. The seizures often comprise facial twitching and alexia, but can be difficult to recognise and mistaken for non-epileptic events. Previous reports have identified reading of printed text, television and computer screens as inducing seizures, but hand-held digital media have not been implicated. We report a 44-year-old woman with difficulty using the text message function of her mobile phone with a long background of unrecognised reading-indu...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Journal article

Thesis level

Article

Date created

2012-07-01

Creator

Watson, Eloise / Lewis, Jill / Cutfield, Nick

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/36761

Related subjects

Mobile phone / Reading Epilepsy / Reflex seizures

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