Klüver-Bucy syndrome
The Klüver-Bucy syndrome [ ˈklyːvɐ ˈbjuːsi ], named after the German-US neuropsychologist Heinrich Klüver (1897–1979) and the US neurologist and neurosurgeon Paul Bucy (1904–1992), is a bilateral (= bilateral) Temporal lobe - lesion involving the amygdala . Clinically it shows through
- an excessive, uninhibited sex drive ( hypersexuality ),
- Amnesia, anterograde and retrograde,
- lack of emotional empathy and expression,
- the loss of fearfulness
- unusually low anxiety
- and a so-called oral tendency (examining everything by mouth).
In humans, lesions in related areas lead to more subtle deficits in emotional processing.
literature
- M. Gazzaniga , RB Ivry, GR Mangun: Cognitive Neuroscience: the biology of the mind. New York 2009, p. 553.
- H. Klüver, PC Bucy: “Psychic blindness” and other symptoms following bilateral temporal lobectomy in rhesus monkeys. In: American Journal of Physiology . 1937, 119, pp. 352-353.
- H. Klüver, PC Bucy: An analysis of certain effects of bilateral temporal lobectomy in the rhesus monkey, with special reference to “psychic blindness”. In: Journal of Psychology. 1938, 5, pp. 33-54.
- H. Klüver, PC Bucy: Preliminary analysis of functions of the temporal lobe in monkeys. In: Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry . 1939, 42, pp. 979-1000.
- N. Birbaumer , RF Schmidt: Biological Psychology. Springer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-540-25460-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jha Sanjeev, Patel R Kluver: Bucy syndrome - An experience with six cases. In: Neurol India. 2004.
- ↑ MS Gazzaniga, RB Ivry, GR Mangun: Cognitive Neuroscience: the biology of the mind. New York 2009, p. 553.