photoepilepsy

plural photoepilepsies

1. countableuncommonuncountablePhotosensitive epilepsy.

   I was unable, however, to find literature indicating a higher incidence of migraine in patients with photoepilepsy.

   2003 May, Randolph W. Evans, Jack Gladstein, “Confusional Migraine or Photoepilepsy?”, in Headache, volume 43, number 5, →DOI, page 507

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   With respect to antiepileptic effects ZK 91296 is surprisingly potent against spontaneous petit mal in rats, stress-induced seizures in gerbils, photoepilepsy in baboons, and DMCM-induced seizures in particular, whereas the compound is unexpectedIy inactive against kindled seizures.

   1986, E.N. Petersen, L.H. Jensen, J. Drejer, T. Hononl, “New Perspectives in Benzodiazepine Receptor Pharmacology”, in Pharmacopsychiatry, volume 19, number 1, →DOI, page 5

   Darigabat is an α2/3/5 subunit-selective positive allosteric modulator of GABAA receptors that has demonstrated broad-spectrum activity in several preclinical models of epilepsy as well as in a clinical photoepilepsy trial.

   2022 November, Rachel Gurrell, Philip Iredale, Alexis Evrard, Venceslas Duveau, Céline Ruggiero, Corinne Roucard, “Pronounced antiseizure activity of the subtype-selective GABAA positive allosteric modulator darigabat in a mouse model of drug-resistant focal epilepsy”, in CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, volume 28, number 11, →DOI, page 1875