Electrical injuries commonly involve serious physical injuries primarily involving burns. However, medical literature indicates that electrical injuries survivors may experience a broad range of impaired neuropsychological functioning. Many electrical injury patients perform significantly worse on standard neuropsychological testing including measures regarding attention, mental speed and motor skill. Frequently cognitive changes occur in patients who have suffered electrical injuries. See Duff and McCaffrey, 2001 Electric Injury and Lighting Injury, A Review of their Mechanisms and Neuropsychological, Psychiatric, and Neurological Sequelae, Neuropsychological Review, 11 (2001), pp. 101-116.
This phenomenon has been described a neuropsychological syndrome related to post electrical injury and involves physical, cognitive and emotional changes. See Recent Advances in Understanding the Neurobehavioral Aspects of Electrical Injury, 20th International Lightening Detection Conference, 2008, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, The Chicago Electrical Trauma Research Program.
