CRT monitors can cause seizures?

@dekzee (38)
Philippines
February 1, 2008 10:19pm CST
I have heard somewhere that the traditional CRT monitors can cause seizures in those who are susceptible (already have a pre-existing seizure disorder). They said, this maybe due to the rhythmic screen refresh rate that is triggering some brainwaves. Is there any truth to this?
1 response
chunter
@chunter (1759)
• Singapore
2 Feb 08
The old CRT monitors have low refresh rates which can affect some people in that sense...But I think it also depends on what graphics are they viewing that people get seizures...It is possible that they are playing first-person shooting game that may give them seizures... Even first person gaming on LCD monitors can sometimes cause seizures too...despite them having higher refresh rate...