Dear Michal, Yes. Seizures come with a risk of harm and the benefit of anti seizure medication is to reduce the chances of them occurring. There may also be a benefit in terms of kids' school performance too. Bw Simon

@DrSimonFreilich thank you for respond. What about side effects of meds? Changing personality like agresivity or focusing at school? If child will outgrown from it... can it return in adulthood??

My personal experience is that CECTS is a complex condition with quite a spectrum, and there's no one size fits all answer, even to relatively reasonable questions such as these. You're going to have to speak it through with the Neurologist, and trust their opinion. Bw Simon

Me too

Can happen anywhere. Bw Simon

@@DrSimonFreilich thanks for the reply

Rheumatology. Bw Simon

Hi, good question Photo-paroxysmal responses (PPR) are the abnormal responses we see on the EEG (i.e. spike/waves etc) in response to the flashing light. These can be graded in severity and association to strobe induced seizures (i.e. from occipitial only, through to generalised discharges). Photo-sensitivity is a term that relates to the subsequent epilepsy diagnosis i.e. because we have demonstrated a sufficient PPR, the patient has Photo-sensitivity. Photo-convulsive is an old term (IFCN Handbook 2nd Edition) that is synonymous with, and has been replaced by the new term Photo-Paroxysmal response. There is also Photo-myoclonic (old term)/Photo-myogenic(new term) responses which are spikes arising from muscle artefacts in the head and face, caused by the flashes irritating the subject being recorded. Hope that helps Bw Simon

Hi, I can't comment specifically but most inflammatory driven processes tend to be asymmetrical and CIDP is no exception to that. Whether or not CIDP is a possibility in your specific situation, depends on your clinical context and investigations as guided by your Neurology team. Bw Simon

Hi, the expression of the seizures induced by photic stimuli is actually quite variable. Most often generalised tonic clonic seizures, but can be a blank stare induced in those with Absence type epilepsy, there may be eyelid and neck jerking in a Jeavons Syndrome epilepsy, and there are other types of manifestations too. Bw Simon

Interference patterns have meaning to us in the profession. They reflect the amount of detected electrical activity on the EMG screen. For us, the description allows us to see in our minds eye what the muscles were doing during your test. To you as a patient, of course it means very little, but you could say that about pretty much any technical aspects of any investigation. Best wishes and only good health, Simon

Many potential reasons but it adds certain information that the electrical stimulation studies alone can't provide. Bw Simon