EXPERIENCE WITH PHOTIC STIMULATION IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
GEORGE A. ULETT M. D.1
1 Department of neurology and psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, and research laboratories of Malcolm Bliss Psychiatric Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.
Intermittent photic stimulation has been of value in psychiatric research in a number of areas which include: (1) the development of screening techniques based upon the EEG driving response and subjective responses to photic stimulation; (2) correlated studies of photic stimulation with psychological tests; (3) studies relating driving response to clinical symptomatology; (4) use in provoking paroxysmal or psychiatric symptoms; (5) use of photic stimulation, together with a convulsant drug to study differences in convulsive thresholds among patients of various diagnostic groups; (6) as a treatment method in photo-shock, and (7) for studies of the neurophysiology of learning.
