@article{ref1,
title="A lightning strike to the head causing a visual cortex defect with simple and complex visual hallucinations",
journal="Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry",
year="2007",
author="Kleiter, Ingo and Luerding, Ralf and Diendorfer, Gerhard and Rek, Helga and Bogdahn, Ulrich and Schalke, Berthold",
volume="78",
number="4",
pages="423-426",
abstract="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. Four months after the accident, she developed a psychological reaction consisting of nightmares with reappearance of the complex visual hallucinations and a depressive syndrome. Using the European Cooperation for Lightning Detection network, a meteorological system for lightning surveillance, the exact geographical location and nature of the lightning flash were retrospectively retraced.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3050",
doi="10.1136/jnnp.2006.097642",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2006.097642"
}