Convulsions and Television Viewing

Abstract

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Audio-Visual Entrainment Program as a Treatment for Behavior Disorders in a School Setting

“…Carterette and Symmes (1952) first reported that red flicker provoked an increased photo-convulsive response (PCR) relative to other wavelengths. Since then, this finding has been reported by Bickford (1953) ;Marshall, Walker, and Livingston (1953); Pantelakis, Bower, and Jones (1962); Kojima, Suguro, and Miyamoto (1963); Brausch and Ferguson (1965) ;Harley, Baird, and Freedman (1967); Tsukahara (1972a, 1973). It has also been reported by Carterette and Symmes (1952); Brausch and Ferguson (1965); Buskirk, Casby, Passouant, and Schwab (1952); Marshall et al (1953); Bickford (1954); Asano and Umezaki (1965); Maruyama and Maruyama (1968); Takahashi and Tsukahara (1972b) and Harley et al (1967) that red removing eyeglasses or contact lenses afforded clinical relief to patients with photogenic epilepsy.…”

A Survey of Instructional Television Researches

“…As a television picture is produced by intermittent illumination, its effect on the viewer-especially one seated near to the screen-could be similar to that of intermittent photic stimulation used in medical practice for producing epileptic discharges. Pantelakis, Bower and Jones (1962) reported convulsions in children which were caused in television viewing. They further reported an incidence of television-induced epilepsy among epileptic children of 5.6%.…”

Television Flicker and Fits

“…Details are given in our previous publication. 6 Briefly, one group of patients was more sensitive than the other, as shown by the presence in the one of EEG discharges with reduced flash intensity, of myoclonic jerking during I.P.S., and of marked epileptic discharges with eyes open. These features were, in general, absent in the less sensitive group.…”