How Video Games Can Cause Seizures

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Certain images can trigger seizures, especially if someone is epileptic. How exactly does this happen? • • Read More: • Japanese cartoon triggers seizures in hundreds of children • http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/17/vide... • “The bright flashing lights of a popular TV cartoon became a serious matter Tuesday evening, when they triggered seizures in hundreds of Japanese children.” • • Photic- and Pattern-induced Seizures: A Review for the Epilepsy Foundation of America Working Group • http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10... • “This report summarizes background material presented to a consensus conference on visually provoked seizures, convened by the Epilepsy Foundation of America.” • • Photosensitive Epilepsy and Image Safety • http://www.researchgate.net/profile/G... • “Photosensitive epilepsy came to prominence in the 1950s with the advent of television.” • • Photosensitivity and Seizures • http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/trigger... • “For about 3 percent of people with epilepsy, exposure to flashing lights at certain intensities or to certain visual patterns can trigger seizures. This condition is known as photosensitive epilepsy.” • • Cognitive effects of seizures • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/... • “We aimed to review recent prospective and cross-sectional studies regarding the gradual and chronic effects of (cumulative) seizures on cognition.” • ____________________ • • DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. • • Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews • • Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... • • DNews on Twitter / dnews • • Trace Dominguez on Twitter / tracedominguez • • Julia Wilde on Twitter / julia_sci • • DNews on Facebook / discoverynews • • DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews • • Discovery News http://discoverynews.com • • Download the TestTube App: http://testu.be/1ndmmMq

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