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  2. Photosensitive epilepsy

Photosensitive epilepsy

  • Hazardous flickering lights
  • Flickering television screens

Nature

Flickering television, VDUs and strobe disco lights are known to provoke epileptic fits in sensitive people. There is also a possibility that video games and virtual reality units could aggravate the risk of seizures.

Incidence

15,000 of the 300,000 people with epilepsy in the UK have the photosensitive kind. After each showing of a cartoon featuring strobe-light in Japan, 700 viewers suffered epilepsy-like seizures, muscle spasms and nausea.

Broader

Epilepsy
Presentable

Aggravated by

Value

Hazard
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(G) Very specific problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Presentable
 Presentable
Language
English
1A4N
J1587
DOCID
12015870
D7NID
149832
Editing link
Official link
Last update
Oct 4, 2020