Kluver-Bucy Syndrome: Very rare behavioural disorder

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Kluver-Bucy Syndrome
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Kluver-Bucy Syndrome

• Kluver-Bucy syndrome is a very rare cerebral
  neurological disorder associated with damage to
  both temporal lobes resulting in abnormalities in
  memory, social and sexual functioning and
  idiosyncratic behaviours. The syndrome affects
  males and females equally.

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What causes Kluver-Bucy syndrome?

• Kluver-Bucy syndrome in its complete adaptation
  seldom occur in humans, however partial
  infliction or presentation of this syndrome is
  caused by massive bilateral temporal damage
  attributable to herpes, degenerative disorders of
  the human brain like Picks disease and
  Alzheimers disease or cerebral-vascular diseases.

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Symptoms

• Individuals with Kluver-Bucy syndrome display
  the following behavioural manifestations 
• Acts of licking and touching that are
  unacceptable for public display
• Demonstrating excessive desire to engage in human
  sexual practices (hypersexuality)
• Engagement in binge-eating (excessive,
  uncontrollable over eating) with feelings of
  guilt and depression afterwards
• People suffering from Kluver-Bucy syndrome tend
  to be subjected to memory disorders consisting of
  short-term memory loss and other serious
  presentations of memory-related ailments
• Inability to recognize people
• Lack of fear reaction

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• Patients of Kluver-Bucy syndrome may also exhibit
  presentations of flattened emotions (placidity)
  like rare and extreme feelings of calmness and
  undisturbed emotions
• Having some extent of difficulty in
  distinguishing and identifying some objects.
• Disorders related to Kluver-Bucy
  syndromeSymptoms of the following disorders can
  be similar to those of Kluver-Bucy syndrome 
• Pick disease, or front temporal dementia, is a
  very rare progressive neurological disease
  initially predominately affecting the frontal and
  temporal lobes of the brain. It is characterized
  by progressive deterioration of intellect with
  changes in behaviour and personality. The memory
  is usually intact in the early stages of the
  disease and there is less disorientation than in
  Alzheimers disease.

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• Alzheimers disease is a common progressive
  disorder of the brain affecting memory, thought
  and language. Groups of nerve endings in the
  cortex of the brains of people with Alzheimers
  degenerate and disrupt the passage of
  electrochemical signals between the cells.
  Affected individuals become increasingly
  forgetful. As memory losses increase,
  personality, mood and behaviour also tend to
  change.
• Korsakoffs syndrome is a deficiency of vitamin
  B-1 that leads to cardiovascular, central and
  peripheral nervous system disturbances. Early
  symptoms of Korsakoffs syndrome include fatigue,
  irritation, poor memory, difficulty sleeping,
  chest pain, abdominal discomfort, poor appetite
  and constipation. Later symptoms are principally
  cardiovascular and neurological.

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Treatments

• Treatment of Kluver-Bucy syndrome is supportive
  and psychotropic that may be effective for some
  of the associated symptoms.

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