Assessing Comorbidities in Epilepsy Using Eye Movement Recordings

Inclusion Criteria: Diagnosis of Childhood Absence Epilepsy by Treating Neurologist or a Healthy control Fluent in English Exclusion Criteria: History of subarachnoid hemorrhage, sickle cell anemia, recent cerebrovascular accident or myocardial infarction, significant cardiopulmonary disease, active asthma, known aneurysm, known moyamoya disease, or pregnancy. Known diagnosis of strabismus or amblyopia Any vision abnormalities that prevent the participant from viewing the screen clearly People who have a history of generalized tonic clonic convulsions To participate as a healthy control the participant must have no personal history of epilepsy, ADHD or other developmental disorder, no first degree relatives with the above diagnosis