Tag: EPILEPSY

Kanye West's new video for 'All of the Lights' features, well, a lot of lights -- so many, in fact, that it could cause some people to have seizures. Epilepsy Action, a U.K.-based awareness organization, has reportedly urged YouTube to pull the video, claiming that the strobe light-intensive clip had already elicited seizures in viewers with certain epileptic conditions. YouTube duly removed ...

Scientists continue their quest for the elusive art of mind control. Recently, researchers at UCLA and the California Institute of Technology have helped patients manipulate images on a computer by teaching them to control the firing of specific neurons in their brains. With the aid of their research team, UCLA professor of neurosurgery Itzhak Fried and Caltech neuroscientist Christof Koch ...

While it's a fairly rare disorder, photosensitive epilepsy came to the forefront of the public consciousness in the late '90s when hundreds of Japanese children had seizures while watching a cartoon. Since then, TV shows, video games, and other forms of media have been better tested to make sure they don't induce fits. The Web, though, has remained largely untamed. That might change soon, thanks ...

People are just plain cruel sometimes. Take, for instance, a group of hackers who thought it would be freakin' hilarious to break into a support forum for epileptics and post flashing animations all over the page. The Epilepsy Foundation found out about the attack with in 12 hours and closed down the forums, but not before people, like RyAnne Fultz (pictured), suffered headaches and seizures. ...