Wilkins A J, Andermann F, Ives J
Brain. 1975 Sep;98(3):365-80. doi: 10.1093/brain/98.3.365.
The study concerns an epileptic patient whose absence attacks were contingent on the viewing of striped patterns. A series of experiments demonstrated first that seizures were not due to the intermittent stimulation of retinal cells produced as physiological nystagmus vibrated the image of the pattern, and secondly that seizures were triggered at the cortical level, probably by the firing of complex cells. Spectacles which occluded pattern vision in one eye were highly effective in reducing seizure incidence.
该研究涉及一名癫痫患者，其失神发作取决于对条纹图案的观看。一系列实验首先证明，癫痫发作并非由于生理性眼球震颤使图案图像振动而对视网膜细胞产生的间歇性刺激所致，其次证明癫痫发作是在皮质水平触发的，可能是由复杂细胞的放电引起的。遮挡一只眼睛图案视觉的眼镜在降低癫痫发作发生率方面非常有效。
