Fixation-off-sensitive epilepsy in eyelid myoclonia with absence seizures.
Fixation-off-sensitive epilepsy is documented in a patient with eyelid myoclonia with absences. A series of simple electroencephalographic techniques showed that elimination of visual fixation is the actual stimulus for the eyelid myoclonus.
D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D009207:Myoclonus / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology