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Sleep Deprived EEG and strobe light
Tue, 11/04/2014 - 10:48I have a question is it normal for the technician to move the strobe lights 2 inches from your face? During my EEG nothing was happening so she kept bringing the light closer and closer until I felt my head swaying a little.
That is a part of the EEG. It
Submitted by just_joe on Fri, 2014-11-07 - 20:29
That is a part of the EEG. It shows a trigger to light sensativity. You would be surprised but there are people who have seizures just because they are on a computer without wearing a certain kind of sense. If yo uthink about welders and their helmets. Those helmwets protect their eyes and keep them from being burned. All a seizure is is an electrical impulse going off wrong in the brain. With some people a flash of light can make that impulse go off wrong