A lightning strike to the head causing a visual cortex defect with simple and complex visual hallucinations

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 423-426

  Kleiter, Ingo ^a   Luerding, Ralf ^a   Diendorfer, Gerhard ^b   Rek, Helga ^a   Bogdahn, Ulrich ^a   Schalke, Berthold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Austrian Lightning Detection and Information System   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PAROXETINE;

ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMA; DEPRESSION; EARDRUM PERFORATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; LIGHTNING; MOUNTAINEERING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NIGHTMARE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; DREAM; ELECTRIC INJURY; HALLUCINATION; INJURY; TIME; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; DREAMS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LIGHTNING INJURIES; MOUNTAINEERING; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PERFORATION; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33947719292     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.097642     Document Type: Article

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