"neepy" <dsutherland7 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| "Dag Stenberg" <dag.stenberg at nospam.helsinki.fi.invalid> wrote in
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| > In bionet.neuroscience NMF <neil.fournier at sympatico.ca> wrote:
| > > Some epileptics will have seizures triggered during the actual
manipulation
| > > and "cutting" of the hair. That has been reported a few times
in the
| > > literature.
| >
| > Could you give one literature reference? Just one to start with.
One
| > only. If possible.
| >
| > Dag Stenberg
|||| Sorry to barge in... never heard of a search engine Dag? Took me
10
| seconds to find this:
||http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1220931.stm|| <START QUOTE>
|| Simply rubbing a small area of skin may be enough to trigger
epileptic
| seizures in certain patients.
|| Research in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
| details a number of cases in which patting different parts of the
body
| brought on attacks.
|| In one, a 31-year-old man found that having a haircut seemed to
lead
| to a seizure.
| [...]
Obviously, in the case you cite, brain damage
isn't caused by the "haircut' [the external stim-
ulus].
The external stimulus triggers a previously-exist-
ing condition [which can result in "brain damage"].
What the query under discussion entails is finding
an example of a haircut causing brain damage
=directly= - no intervening stuff.
Fire up your "search engine" :-]
ken
