Definition:
Kluver-Bucy syndrome is a behavioral disorder that comes about due to malfunction of the right and left medial temporal lobes of the brain.
Symptoms and Signs:
Individuals with Kluver-Bucy syndrome display the following behavioral manifestations:
* Human with Kluver-Bucy syndrome possibly will present oral or tactile exploratory actions. For example: acts of licking and touching that are unacceptable for public display.
* They may demonstrate excessive desire to engage in human sexual practices (hypersexuality).
* They tend to engage in binge-eating (excessive, uncontrollable over eating) with feelings of guilt and depression afterwards (bulimia).
* People suffering from Kluver-Bucy syndrome tend to be subjected to memory disorders including short-term memory loss and other severe presentations of memory-related ailments.
* Inability to recognize people
* Lack of fear reaction
* They may also exhibit presentations of flattened emotions (placidity) like unusual and extreme feelings of calmness and undisturbed emotions.
* Sufferers can also be observed of having some extent of difficulty in distinguishing and identifying some objects.
Causes:
Kluver-Bucy syndrome in its complete adaptation rarely occur in humans, however partial infliction or presentation of this syndrome is caused by massive bilateral temporal damage attributable to herpes, degenerative disorders of the brain like Pick's disease and Alzheimer's disease or cerebrovascular diseases.
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