title: Occipital lobe epilepsy with scotosensitive seizures: the role of central vision.
abstract: In four cases of occipital lobe epilepsy, clinical seizures and EEG discharges were evoked by darkness and/or closed eyes. In all cases the inducing factor was represented by the abolition of central vision. The importance of central vision in the excitation-inhibition process of the occipital EEG discharges is emphasized in light of the anatomophysiological organization of the visual system. Scotosensitive epilepsy and benign partial epilepsy of childhood with occipital spike-waves may represent the same clinical entity.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003624:Darkness / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*