hypersexuality

Etiology: 1) Kluver-Bucy syndrome - incudes disinhibition from dementia 2) Klein-Levine syndrome 3) hippocampal sclerosis 4) pallidotomy 5) postencephalitic parkinsonism 6) post right frontal craniotomy for suprasellar meningioma 7) anoxic encephalopathy 8) head trauma 9) Klinefelter's syndrome 10) upper brainstem glioma extending to the hypothalamus 11) right frontal lobe AV malformation in region of septum & hypothalamus 12) diffuse multiple sclerosis Pathology: 1) bilateral anterior temporal lobe dysfunction 2) in sexually aroused healthy men, increased blood flow in a) ventral globus pallidus b) anterior cingulate gyrus c) anterior temporal cortex

References

Mendez, publication pending 2003