Altered Behavior Associated with Damage to the Ventromedial Hypothalamus: A Distinctive Syndrome

An adult manifested a tetrad of neurobehavioral findings consisting of episodic rage, emotional lability, hyperphagia with obesity, and memory impairment with intellectual decline following surgical removal of a craniopharyngioma. Post-mortem investigation of the topography of the lesion as well as...

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Main Authors: Frederick G. Flynn, Jeffrey L. Cummings, Uwamie Tomiyasu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1988-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1988-1107
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