Klüver-Bucy syndrome after left anterior temporal resection

Neuropsychologia. 1995 Jan;33(1):101-13. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(94)00097-9.

Abstract

A 70-year-old right-handed woman developed a complete Klüver-Bucy syndrome including psychic blindness, aberrant sexual behavior, hypermetamorphosis, aphasia and visual agnosia following left anterior temporal lobectomy for an anaplasic oligodendroglioma. MRI showed no argument for a contralateral ischemic infarct, tumoral growth or white matter damage. Thus the possibility that a unilateral anterior temporal lesion can cause the whole picture of Klüver-Bucy syndrome must therefore be considered.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Affect
  • Aged
  • Brain Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Brain Diseases / drug therapy
  • Brain Diseases / physiopathology
  • Carbamazepine / therapeutic use
  • Electroencephalography
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Promethazine / therapeutic use
  • Psychosurgery
  • Syndrome
  • Temporal Lobe / physiopathology
  • Temporal Lobe / surgery*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Carbamazepine
  • Promethazine