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NEUROLOGY 1989;39:434
© 1989 American Academy of Neurology

The EEG response to diffuse and patterned photic stimulation during acute untreated alcohol withdrawal

B. J. Fisch, MD, W. A. Hauser, MD, J.C.M. Brust, MD, G. S. Gupta, MD, R. Lubin, MD, G. Tawfik, MD and J. C. Hyacinthe, MD

Department of Neurology, The Neurological Institute, and Harlem Hospital Medical Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY.

We studied the responses to diffuse and patterned stroboscopic light stimulation prospectively in 49 individuals during acute alcohol withdrawal prior to pharmacologic treatment. Photomyogenic responses (PMR) occurred in only two (4%) of those tested, and photoparoxysmal responses (PPR) never occurred. These findings suggest that PMR occur far leas often during alcohol withdrawal than previously thought and that PPR may not be a direct manifestation of alcohol withdrawal.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Fisch, Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratories, Neurological Institute, 710 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032.

Received July 29, 1988. Accepted for publication in final form September 13,1988.






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