Ingo Kleiter, Ralf Luerding, Gerhard Diendorfer, Helga Rek, Ulrich Bogdahn, Berthold Schalke
The case of a 23-year-old mountaineer who was hit by a lightning strike to the occiput causing a large central visual field defect and bilateral tympanic membrane ruptures is described. Owing to extreme agitation, the patient was set to a drug-induced coma for 3 days. After extubation, she experienced simple and complex visual hallucinations for several days, but otherwise recovered largely. Neuropsychological tests revealed deficits in fast visual detection tasks and non-verbal learning, and indicated a right temporal lobe dysfunction, consistent with a right temporal focus on electroencephalography...
April 2007: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry