Neuropsychological changes following electrical injury

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-23

  Pliskin, Neil H ^a,d   Ammar, Alia N ^a   Fink, Joseph W ^b   Hill, S Kristian ^a   Malina, Aaron C ^c   Ramati, Alona ^a   Kelley, Kathleen M ^a   Lee, Raphael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Evanston Northwestern Health Care System   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Cognitive; Electric shock; Litigation; Psychiatric; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC INJURY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; DEPRESSION; INTELLIGENCE TEST; JURISPRUDENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTRIC INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33644885436     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617706060061     Document Type: Article

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