[Television epilepsy].
Television epilepsy (TE) appear to be the variation of photosensitive epilepsy when the fits are provoked by watching TV. 23 patients aged 6-20 years were observed (8-men, 15 women). TE included epilepsy with generalized convulsive fits (34.8%), juvenile absence-epilepsy (17.4%), juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (30.4%), children absence-epilepsy (13.0%) and partial occipital epilepsy (4.4%). "Pure" TE was diagnosed in 26.1% of patients, while the combined TE--in 73.9%. Diagnostic criteria of the syndrome of "pure" TE were formulated.
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