The late effects of necrotizing encephalitis of the temporal lobes and limbic areas: a clinico-pathological study of 10 cases

Psychol Med. 1978 Feb;8(1):21-42. doi: 10.1017/s0033291700006607.

Abstract

The clinical and neuropathological features are reported of 10 patients who had suffered, usually for several years, from the after effects of an acute or sub-acute necrotizing encephalitis of the limbic grey matter and of the adjacent temporal lobes. Emphasis is laid on the memory disturbance and on the behavioural and emotional aberrations that tended to occur and that are in some ways reminiscent of the Klüver-Bucy syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Antibodies, Viral / analysis
  • Aphasia / diagnosis
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Cerebral Cortex / pathology
  • Encephalomyelitis / pathology*
  • Female
  • Gliosis / pathology
  • Herpes Simplex / immunology
  • Humans
  • Leukoencephalitis, Acute Hemorrhagic / diagnosis
  • Leukoencephalitis, Acute Hemorrhagic / immunology
  • Leukoencephalitis, Acute Hemorrhagic / pathology*
  • Limbic System / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neurocognitive Disorders / diagnosis
  • Optic Nerve / pathology
  • Pregnancy
  • Thalamus / pathology
  • Vision Disorders / diagnosis

Substances

  • Antibodies, Viral