Citation

Dawes DM, Ho JD, Vincent AS, Nystrom PC, Moore JC, Steinberg LW, Tilton AMK, Brave MA, Berris MS, Miner JR. Forensic Sci. Med. Pathol. 2014; 10(1): 9-17.

Affiliation

Lompoc Valley Medical Center, Lompoc, CA, USA, donalddawes@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s12024-013-9510-y

PMID

24213973

Abstract

While the physiologic effects of modern conducted electrical weapons (CEW) have been the subject of numerous studies, their effects on neurocognitive functioning, both short-term and long-term, are less well understood. It is also unclear how these effects compare to other use-of-force options or other arrest-related stressors. We compared the neurocognitive effects of an exposure to a TASER(®) (TASER International, Inc, Scottsdale, AZ) X26™ CEW to four other use-of-force scenarios during a training exercise using a well-established neurocognitive metric administered repeatedly over 1 h. Overall, we found that there was a decline in neurocognitive performance immediately post-scenario in all groups, but this effect was transient, of questionable clinical significance, and returned to baseline by 1 h post-scenario.

Language: en