Obeid T, Daif A K, Waheed G, Yaqub B, Panayiotopoulos C P, Tahan A R, Shamena A
Division of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Epilepsia. 1991 Jan-Feb;32(1):77-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1991.tb05615.x.
The occurrence of photosensitivity (PS) was examined in 327 Arabs greater than or equal to 15 years of age with epilepsy by intermittent photic stimulation (IPS). A control group of 192 nonepileptic Arabs greater than or equal to 15 years of age were also examined by IPS. Of the epileptic patients, 24 (7.3%) were photosensitive, an incidence comparable to that in whites in contradistinction to the reported rarity among African blacks. This finding indicates that environmental factors, particularly excessive sunshine, does not appear to influence the occurrence of PS among epileptic patients. The occurrence of PS among epileptic patients may depend more strongly on the presence of an epileptic syndrome known to have association with PS.
通过间歇性光刺激（IPS）对327名年龄大于或等于15岁的癫痫阿拉伯患者进行了光敏性（PS）发生情况的检查。还对192名年龄大于或等于15岁的非癫痫阿拉伯人组成的对照组进行了IPS检查。在癫痫患者中，24名（7.3%）有光敏性，这一发病率与白人相当，与报道的非洲黑人中罕见的情况形成对比。这一发现表明，环境因素，尤其是过度日晒，似乎并不影响癫痫患者中PS的发生。癫痫患者中PS的发生可能更强烈地取决于已知与PS相关的癫痫综合征的存在。
