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- From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: LEGAL: Epilepsy health warnings
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 01:01:28 CET
- Organization: University of Washington
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- I recall that everyone suffering from epilepsy has some kind of "critical"
- frequency, which (if I recall right) is the one her/his brain works at when
- having a crisis (sp?). If s/he gets a visual stimulation at the frequency,
- like when driving in a straight road with trees on the sides and the sun
- appearing and disappearing through the trees, an epileptic attack can be
- induced.
- Maybe they should put warnings on the trees too! :-)
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- Disclaimer: I am talking about things I read a LONG ago, so I may have
- completely distorted the meaning...
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- Diego
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