The 1997 episode of the Pokemon animated series that triggered seizures in hundreds of viewers inspired the United States Army to create an electromagnetic energy gun that would attack an enemy's ...

Japanese children who had seizures during a “Pokemon” cartoon in 1997 have generally not had another one unless they already had epilepsy, researchers say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

This screenshot from the cartoon show Pokemon catches a critical moment in the episode "Electric Soldier Porygon." When the program first aired in Japan on Dec. 16, 1997, a scene in which the pocket ...

In December 1997, many children, and even some adults, in Japan who were watching the television cartoon program “Pocket Monster,” or “Pokemon,” had epileptic seizures. 1,2 Because the program was ...