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The sunflower syndrome. A new look at "self-induced" photosensitive epilepsy.
Journal of the Neurological Sciences 1983 April
The stereotyped, episodic abnormal behaviour manifested by a child and her mother on exposure to a particular sort of sunlight is described in detail. The child is the first fully documented patient with this so-called "self-induced" form of photosensitive epilepsy in whom for several years no electroencephalographic sensitivity to flickering light could be demonstrated. The probability that the cingulate circuit may be the anatomical substrate involved in the pathogenesis of these patients' unusual response to sunlight is discussed. Both patients also exhibited remarkably persistent habit rhythmias--the one common to both being that of circling.
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