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Observations on the Electrically-Produced Epileptic Convulsion. Part II: Pupillary Phenomena in Normal and Pathological Pupils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. Klein  and
D. F. Early
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There are three particular pupillary movements in the course of the electrically-produced epileptic fit: dilatation during the convulsion, constriction in the post-convulsive stage, and spasmodic dilatation towards the final stages of the post-convulsive stage. The pupillary dilatation in the convulsive phase is identical with that found in the spontaneous epileptic fit, where it is generally considered as an expression of sympathetic activity, either the consequence of a general (Bumke, 1914) or of a focal cortical excitation (Foerster, 1936; Penfield and Erickson, 1941), or, an opinion held more recently, due to a hypothalamic mechanism (Delay, 1946).

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 94 , Issue 397 , October 1948 , pp. 805 - 808
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1948 

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