Sudoku Brainteasers Trigger Man’s Seizures, University of Munich Study

Seizures from solving sudoku puzzles

Solving sudoku puzzles led to seizures in a young German man, say scientists from the University of Munich who wrote about the unusual medical tale in JAMA Neurology.

The 25-year-old man, a physical education student, had survived being buried just weeks before by an avalanche during a ski trip. Deprived of oxygen for 15 minutes, he developed muscle jerks when he tried to speak and walk. While in the hospital, he was trying to work out a sudoku puzzle when he began to experience clonic seizures of his left arm, which had not been injured in the accident.

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