Can rapid eye blinking induce epileptic seizures?

[Ganesh Ujwal]

Photosensitive epilepsies are characterized by visually-induced seizures. Flashing-light stimuli are known to induce seizures in some (but not all) patients. My question is whether people with this type of epilepsy can self-induce seizures by rapid eye blinking?

[StringJunky]

Seizures triggered by blinking in a non-photosensitive epileptic

 

Abstract

An epileptic girl with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome had seizures triggered specifically by blinking, but not by other eye movements or by photic stimulation. Electrographic and clinical seizures were most reliably precipitated by repetitive blinking produced voluntarily on command, by reflex blinking on corneal stimulation, or by psychogenic triggers of blinking such as social stress or cognitive effort.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1028775/

[davidivad]

well, the only thing you can do now is try it out.

make sure you time it right though.

use a metronome or something.