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Reflex seizures represent the 4–7% of all epileptic seizures. Most of these are visually induced seizures (about 1/4000 of the population and about 5% of people with epileptic seizures, with higher prevalence in females and in the adolescence. However, rate widely differs among studies, between 1 and 10%). The multiplication of artificial light stimulations in the modern environment has greatly increased the possibility of clinical expression of this phenomenon [1].
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Striano, S., Striano, P. (2019). Reflex Seizures and Reflex Epilepsies. In: Mecarelli, O. (eds) Clinical Electroencephalography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04573-9_28
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