Posted on 09/12/2016 11:11:32 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Abstract
Summary: Purpose: Photosensitivity can represent a serious problem in epilepsy patients, also because pharmacologic treatment is often ineffective. Nonpharmacologic treatment using blue sunglasses is effective and safe in controlling photosensitivity, but large series of patients have never been studied.
Methods: This multicenter study was conducted in 12 epilepsy centers in northern, central, southern, and insular Italy. A commercially available lens, named Z1, obtained in a previous trial, was used to test consecutively enrolled pediatric and adult epilepsy patients with photosensitivity. Only type 4 photosensitivity (photoparoxysmal response, PPR) was considered in the study. A standardized method was used for photostimulation.
Results: Six hundred ten epilepsy patients were tested. Four hundred (66%) were female patients; 396 (65%) were younger than 14 years. Three hundred eighty-one (62%) subjects were pharmacologically treated at the time of investigation. Z1 lenses made PPR disappear in 463 (75.9%) patients, and PPR was considerably reduced in an additional 109 (17.9%) of them. PPR remained unchanged only in the remaining 38 (6.2%) patients. The response of PPR to Z1 lenses was not significantly influenced by the patients' age, sex, or type of epilepsy. No difference was found between pharmacologically treated and untreated patients.
Conclusions: The Z1 lens is highly effective in controlling PPR in a very large number of photosensitive epilepsy patients irrespective of their epilepsy or antiepileptic drug treatment. The lens might become a valid resource in the daily activity of any clinician who cares for patients with epilepsy.
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DISCUSSION
The results of this multicenter study illustrate the undoubted efficacy of these commercially available Z1 lenses, as they are highly effective in completely controlling PPR in >75% and reducing it in an additional 17% of our photosensitive epilepsy patients.
“Is that someone I should recognize?”
If you know who Tom Petty is
I tend to not agree with the Parkinson meme as Hillary has had these fainting type spells going back into her college days and early speaking engagements.
I lean towards it being epilepsy and stressful events can trigger seizures. I have heard the “over heated” excuse now 3 or 4 times for her and that is also a type of epilepsy aura that precedes a seizure event. She says she is getting warm and the team takes action to get her out of the situation. It would also explain why they didn’t take her to a hospital for an evaluation. People who have epilepsy don’t need hospital level medical attention unless they go status.
Now, if they cannot control her seizure events with medication or a RNS Stimulator then she is not fit to be President.
You may be right. She’s hiding her health issues so we can only guess. My opinion is, politics aside, she is physically unfit for office.
Would it be wrong for Trump to pull out a strobe light during the Debates?
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LOL!
I’d rather he keep his hands clean....but....if someone else did it? :)
Gee, it would be a shame if the Trump supporters all took lots of flash photographs during the Debate, triggering Hill into a seizure.
Just wouldn’t be right.
“If you know who Tom Petty is”
I like the music, but I don’t know him by sight. The file name says he’s “9851e35a0ddcecbb3e8e50ae6c7686fb”
The coffee comment => it’s game play...
In the dating gaming, how do you fill awkward silence or even approach a women when you have nothing really to say...maybe your nervous...how do you avoid sounding like a weirdo?
1.). Observe something...anything. (Ripe lemons in the grocery store.)
2.). Make a comment/observation out loud about that thing.
3.). Draw a personal revelation. (Inviting the same -likewise.)
“Those lemons look fresh. It reminds me of the fresh lemonade my Mom made.” (Opener.)
It’s a technique.
So, the confusion of multiple people talking to Hillary triggers a seizure, how does she work her way out of the awkward stop?
Focus on an object, make a comment about that, relate to it...inviting the same.
Most smart phones have a strobe feature for the flash led. 20 or so of those going off at debate would be most revealing.
Yeah...a real shame. HA
She is such a flawed candidate. The dems should have gone with the old socialist.
Blue Filters (B) Blue Filters transmit light in the blue spectrum and are named after the wavelength at which their transmittance attains the maximum value. They are used for 3-color separations, selection of wavelengths, and color compensation.
They appear blue due to scatter.
Unlikely it is scatter, unless there is some very bright light source that is directly over her head in those photos.
More likely is they appear blue due to an reflective interference filter coating on the front of the lenses that preferentially reflects on-axis blue light, and passes everything else (i.e., the yellow light). Such glasses are useful because the human eye is very poorly focused for blue light (this is why it’s hard to look at blue LED Christmas lights, which always appear blurry). It’s the same reason shooting glasses are yellow.
No, the lenses generally are molded in blue polycarbonate or a higher-refractive index plastic. A blue lense or filter passes the bluish part of the spectrum; a filter-for blue filter absorbs or reflects it.
Shooting glasses (which appear amber) filter out blue light while these special-purpose medical glasses appear blue and pass blue.
z1 lenses are blue in transmission because they absorb everything but blue. Hillary’s glasses are blue in reflection, meaning they reflect blue and would pass yellow.
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