Abstract

Although electrical injury is rare, it is important due to the high rate of morbidity and mortality. Electrical injury may cause many systemical and neurological symptoms. Disorders of higher cortical functions due to electrical shock are very rare. Prosopagnosia is a selective agnosia that occurs due to the dysfunction of cortical networks. Cerebral injury, congenital and hereditary disorders are the reasons of prosopagnosia. Involvement of bilateral inferior and medial visual association cortex, bilateral lesions of the lingual and fusiform gyrus, anterior temporal region lesions and lesions of occipitotemporal areas may cause prosopagnosia. Presented in this report is a 46-year-old man who suffered from secondary generalized seizure and prosopagnosia after an electrical injury.

Key Words: Electrical Injury; Prosopagnosia; Epileptic Seizure.