eye blinking indicative of brain tumor?

Many years ago, by wife had a grande mal seizure and was sent to a neurologist. She noticed something about how my wife blinked and expressed concern about it. I’m not sure what she noticed, but I think it was a ‘double blink’…(something like a southern belle would do to attract men). We just joked that she had been watching too much “Gone With the Wind”, but the neurologist ordered an MRI anyway. There was nothing there, so we just went along our way. (for a couple of years anyway:()

Can someone tell me what the neurologist might have seen in her blinking pattern? I don’t know if it really was a double blink, a half blink, or one closing faster than the other; or what.

THe short question is; "what patterns of blinking can be indicative of neurological trouble like a brain tumor?

I believe it is usually excessive blinking, but there doesn’t seem to be a strong correlation. Here are a few links, with no guarantee on their scientific merit. The first looks most reputable, although it doesn’t come out and say what the blinking pattern would be.

The Visual System and Childhood Brain Tumor

Reflex Testing Symptoms of a Brain Tumor
What are the Causes of Excessive Blinking?

Seizures can be links to tumors and are often indicators. But often people will have seizures randomly in their life and never have one again. But it is better to test for it and find out early than to wait till the tumor grows and your wife were to have another while driving. But by the sounds of it it was just a random one and could of been stress and other factors going on her life at the time. There are many kinds of seizures and I am sure the doctor didn’t see your wife have it so he was just being safe.

The neurologist could have been checking to see if she were having petit mal seizures as well. Fluttering eyelids are a symptom in typical petit mals.