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Stroke
Published in Ibrahim Natalwala, Ammar Natalwala, E Glucksman, MCQs in Neurology and Neurosurgery for Medical Students, 2022
Ibrahim Natalwala, Ammar Natalwala, E Glucksman
Klüver-Bucy syndrome presents with the clinical triad of hyperorality, hypersexuality and disinhibited behaviour. An ischaemic stroke, encephalitis and Alzheimer’s disease can cause it. The location of the lesion responsible for this presentation is the amygdala (bilateral lesion), which is involved in memory, emotion and sexuality. Although a relatively uncommon condition, it is important to distinguish it from other lesions that may present similarly.10
Dementia
Published in Henry J. Woodford, Essential Geriatrics, 2022
Klüver–Bucy syndrome results from bilateral anterior temporal lobe dysfunction. Its clinical features include dietary changes (e.g. eating only sweet things), emotional blunting, altered sexual behaviour, sensory agnosia and oral exploratory behaviour (e.g. putting inedible objects into the mouth). Neuroimaging may reveal focal atrophy of frontal and temporal lobes but this is usually only detectable late in the disease course.
Sleep–Wake Disorders
Published in Philip B. Gorelick, Fernando D. Testai, Graeme J. Hankey, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Hankey's Clinical Neurology, 2020
Margaret Kay-Stacey, Eunice Torres-Rivera, Phyllis C. Zee
Differential diagnosis includes: Hypoglycemia.Peptic ulcer disease.Reflux esophagitis.Kluver–Bucy syndrome.
Neurocysticercosis: the good, the bad, and the missing
Published in Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2018
Arturo Carpio, Agnès Fleury, Matthew L. Romo, Ronaldo Abraham
The relationship between NC and a wide range of diverse symptoms and signs reported in people with symptomatic NC is less clear. These symptoms include involuntary movements, extrapyramidal signs, stroke-like symptoms, manifestations of brainstem dysfunction, Klüver–Bucy syndrome, and cortical blindness [47]. Most reports, however, are based on retrospective studies, anecdotal reports or case series, without definitions nor reliable diagnostic criteria [15], which makes it difficult to assume causality between these pathologies and NC. Cysticercotic encephalitis, a rare but severe form of parenchymal NC, usually affects children and young people in the first two decades of life. These patients have hundreds of viable or degenerating cysts with a diffuse inflammatory showed by imaging procedures, and treatment is symptomatic and prognosis uncertain.