title: "Txt"-induced seizures indicating reading epilepsy in the mobile phone age.
abstract: Reading epilepsy is a rare type of reflex epilepsy. The seizures often comprise facial twitching and alexia, but can be difficult to recognise and mistaken for non-epileptic events. Previous reports have identified reading of printed text, television and computer screens as inducing seizures, but hand-held digital media have not been implicated. We report a 44-year-old woman with difficulty using the text message function of her mobile phone with a long background of unrecognised reading-induced seizures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Dunedin Hospital, Southern District Health Board, Dunedin, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Eloise
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cutfield
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D040421:Cell Phone; D004569:Electroencephalography; D020195:Epilepsy, Reflex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology*; D060145:Text Messaging