TY - JOUR
AU - MARSHALL, JOHN
AB - NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS 609 Photosensitive Epilepsy. By P. M. JEAVONS and G. F. A. HARDING. 1975. Pp. 121. London : Heinemann Medical Books. Price £4.50. The authors estimate that photosensitive epilepsy may occur in more than 1 per 10000 of the population; not common, therefore, but presenting an occasional exercise in diagnosis and treatment for every neurologist and epileptic clinic. They have drawn on their considerable experience of such cases to produce a well-documented account of the clinical, EEG and therapeutic features. This .type of epilepsy is almost the only one in which a given stimulus can be expected to produce a predictable response; it is therefore of great interest for research in epilepsy, the more so since Naquet and his school have found a good animal model in the baboon, Papiopapio. Unfortunately Jeavons and Harding have not been tempted into this fascinating area and their work is almost totally one of clinical observation. The use of unit symbols is idiosyncratic and sometimes briefly confusing: f. sec. means flashes per second but m. sec. means milliseconds, not metres per second; both are incorrect in c.g.s. and SI. Within the already limited scope of the title it is very 
TI - NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS
JO - Brain
DO - 10.1093/brain/99.3.609-b
DA - 1976-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/notices-of-recent-publications-cfJ52OhZS0
SP - 609
EP - 610
VL - 99
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -