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Transient compulsive hyperphagia in a patient with a thalamic infarct

¹ First Division of Neurology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
² University "Parthenope" of Naples, Naples, Italy

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Dr Paolo Cerrato
paolo_cerrato@yahoo.com

Keywords: hyperphagia; stroke; thalamic infarction

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Eating disorders are associated with various psychiatric and neurological diseases. Pathological eating behaviour ranges from reduced to excessive appetite, dysregulation of hunger and satiation signals, and odd food preferences. Hyperphagia and anorexia are reported in lesions (mostly tumours) involving the ventromedial hypothalamus.¹ Moreover, eating disorders also occur in temporal lobe tumours, temporal lobe epilepsy, and advanced states of degenerative disease with neuronal loss in the medial temporal lobe. Hyperorality is part of the Kluver-Bucy syndrome which occurs in patients with bilateral mesial temporal lesions.¹

We report a patient in whom compulsive hyperphagia was associated with a medial thalamic ischaemic stroke.

CASE REPORT
A 52 year old man complained of diplopia, dizziness, vertigo, decrease of consciousness, memory impairment, and hyperphagia. These symptoms occurred abruptly while he was painting the gate in his garden.

The diplopia and vertigo disappeared in about 15 minutes, while hyperphagia and memory impairment lasted for about 24 hours and . . . [Full text of this article]