photoepileptic

English

Etymology

From photo- +‎ epileptic or photoepilepsy +‎ -tic.

Adjective

photoepileptic (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) Of, pertaining, affected by, or causing photoepilepsy.
   • 1979 August, Glenn A. Plaster, Karen J. Lodge, Dallas E. Mulvaney, “Effect of Distance of Photostimulation on a Photosensitive Epileptic Subject”, in Psychological Reports, volume 45, number 1, →DOI, page 271:

     The effect of stroboscopic photostimulation upon an institutionalized, mentally retarded, photoepileptic male was studied.

   • 2008 August, Gary Garcia Molina, “Detection of high-frequency steady state visual evoked potentials using phase rectified reconstruction”, in 2008 16th European Signal Processing Conference‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-05-24, page 1:

     The oscillating visual stimulus required to elicit an SSVEP can be (depending on the stimulation frequency) annoying for the user and even dangerous since it can trigger photoepileptic seizures.

   • 2013 February 12, Lakshmi Mukundan, Octavian Lie, Linda Leary, Alexander Papanastassiou, Lola Morgan, Charles Szabo, “Subdural Recording of Generalized Photoepileptic Responses in a Patient with Focal Cortical Dysplasia (P06.174)”, in Neurology, volume 80, number 7, →DOI:

     This report focuses on generalized photoepileptic responses (PERs) not previously reported in patients with subdural electrodes.