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Dostoevsky’s epilepsy induced by television
  1. D G A KASTELEIJN-NOLST TRENITÉ
  1. Instituut voor Epilepsiebestrijding, Meer en Bosch, De Cruquiushoeve, Postbus 21 2100 AA, Heemstede, The Netherlands

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.63.2.273

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      I refer to the letter written by Cabrera-Valdiviaet al 1 in which they describe a 25 year old woman with “ecstatic epilepsy” evoked by sitting near the television. This compulsive pleasure seeking behaviour, which is called self induced epilepsy, is often described in patients who are photosensitive and television sensitive.

      The first cases of self induced television epilepsy were described by Andermann2 in 1971 and …

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