Medical Blinking lights can hurt your head?

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Watching blinking lights can potentially induce seizures in individuals with pre-existing seizure disorders, although they do not cause seizures in everyone. Computer screens and TVs emit light that blinks at a frequency of 60-80 times per second, which may lead to eye strain or headaches for some viewers. This discomfort could be linked to persistence of vision, where the brain struggles to process rapid oscillations of light. The effects of blinking lights are frequency-dependent and vary among individuals, meaning not everyone will experience adverse reactions from screens.
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I was wondering, I have heard that watching a blinking light can give you a head ack and a seizure. Why does that happen because our computer screens and tvs, are just blinking lights. They blink at about 60-80 times a second.
 
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Blinking lights don't give you seizures, but they can INDUCE a seizure in someone with a pre-existing seizure disorder.
 
They can also hurt your eyes, but I'm not exactly sure why. It could be due to persistence of vision and your brain's attempt to deal with the fast oscillation. And it is frequency dependent, and different from person to person, so not everyon experiences it with computer monitors.
 

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