Klüver-Bucy syndrome

Definition

A rare neurologic disease characterized by visual agnosia, hyperorality (strong tendency to examine objects orally), hypermetamorphosis (described as the irresistible impulse to notice and react to everything within sight), hypersexuality, changes in dietary habits and hyperphagia, placidity, and amnesia, due to bilateral lesions of the temporal lobe including the hippocampus and amygdala.

Disease data

Classification

Clinical syndrome

ORPHA code

157823

OMIM code

ICD10 code

G04.8

ICD11 code

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