Thursday, September 11, 2008

Kluver-Bucy Syndrome

jeff, this one is for you.

crazy disease with absurd symptoms, do read on.


this is a disease caused by a bilateral lesion in the temporal lobe, including the amygdala, temporal neocortex, olfactory cortex and hippocampus.


symptoms:

visual agnosia: all objects, living or not, familiar or not, food or feces, are approached and compulsively examed, often orally

Oral tendencies: everything is compulsively put into the mouth, licked, chewed and smelled

Loss of fear and anger

Hypersexuality: male monkeys with this disease display frequent erections and copulate with other monkeys (male or female) whenever possible.

examples of animals with kluver-bucy syndrome

3 comments:

JakeHawbaker said...

MERCY!!

Unknown said...

I give up on the sedation drug that starts with a B and was discontinued because of heart attacks. Lexi doesn't know either and she's generally my gold standard of dentist knowledge, so please let us know when you check your notes.

In reference to the Kluver-Bucy post: Gigi is a huge fan of the deer picture. Thank you for that.

Unknown said...

Only a few months too late, Nico... I was diagnosed back in March.

HEY-OOOOOOOOO!