Can police car flashing lights induce a risk of encephalographic epileptic discharges and seizures?

The new police car flashing-light device (930 Heliobe Lightbar) has recently been implicated as potentially epileptogenic. We exposed 30 epileptic patients, 30 nonepileptic patients who suffered from headache and 15 normal volunteers to this light source. All had routine EEGs with standard intermitt...

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Published inהרפואה Vol. 137; no. 10; p. 446
Main Authors Vainstein, G, Yofe, V, Gadoth, N
Format Journal Article
LanguageHebrew
Published Israel 15.11.1999
Subjects
Adult
Aged
Anticonvulsants - therapeutic use
Automobiles
Electroencephalography - radiation effects
Epilepsy - drug therapy
Epilepsy - physiopathology
Epilepsy, Reflex - etiology
Epilepsy, Reflex - physiopathology
Female
Humans
Light
Male
Middle Aged
Police
Seizures - etiology
Seizures - physiopathology
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Summary:The new police car flashing-light device (930 Heliobe Lightbar) has recently been implicated as potentially epileptogenic. We exposed 30 epileptic patients, 30 nonepileptic patients who suffered from headache and 15 normal volunteers to this light source. All had routine EEGs with standard intermittent photic stimulation, followed by 3-minute stimulation with the Lightbar. In none were either seizures or EEG changes induced. In 1 epileptic spike-and-wave activity induced by standard photic stimulation was enhanced with the Lightbar. We could not confirm that the Lightbar is epileptogenic.
ISSN:0017-7768