Hypersexuality following bilateral thalamic infarction: case report
Hypersexuality is a rare but well recognized condition following brain injury. It has been described secondarily to dysfunction in the hypothalamus, the temporal and frontal lobes. We report a 63 year-old man that developed neuropsychological disturbances with hypersexuality as a prominent feature, disinhibition and moderate memory loss, hypersomnia and irritability after a bilateral paramedian thalamic infarction. A SPECT showed frontal hypoperfusion. We believe that these findings are expression of frontal-subcortical circuits dysfunction, particularly the orbitofrontal circuit, secondary to dorso medial thalamic infarction which probably plays a role in the determination of human sexual behavior. This case favors a thalamic modulation of frontal function.
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO
2006
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Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2006000100032 |
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