Kluver-Bucy syndrome

Klü·ver-Bu·cy syn·drome

(klē'vĕr bū'sē),

characterized by psychic blindness or hyperreactivity to visual stimuli, increased oral and sexual activity, and depressed drive and emotional reactions. Reported in monkeys after bilateral temporal lobe ablation, but rarely reported in humans.

A syndrome characterised by hypersexuality, visual agnosia, decreased recognition of people, loss of fear and anger responses, rage reactions, memory loss, seizures, dementia, excess oral behaviour, memory defects, and overreaction to visual stimuli
Aetiology Herpes encephalitis, trauma with bilateral damage to the anterior temporal lobes or due to temporal lobectomy

Kluver-Bucy syndrome

Psychiatry A syndrome following bilateral temporal lobe removal characterized by ↓ recognition of people, loss of fear, rage reactions, hypersexuality, excess oral behavior, memory defects, overreaction to visual stimuli

Bucy,

Paul C., U.S. neurosurgeon, 1904-1992.

Bucy cordotomy knife

Bucy knife

Bucy laminectomy rongeur

Bucy retractor

Bucy tube

Klüver-Bucy syndrome - see under Klüver

Klüver,

Heinrich, German-born U.S. neurologist, 1897-1979.

Klüver-Barrera Luxol fast blue stain - in combination with cresyl violet, a stain useful for demonstrating myelin and Nissl substance.

Klüver-Bucy syndrome - a syndrome mostly reported in monkeys, characterized by psychic blindness or hyperreactivity to visual stimuli, increased oral and sexual activity, and depressed drive and emotional reactions.

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Kluver-Bucy syndrome (KBS), a rare neurobehavioral syndrome, was first described in 1939 by Kluver and Bucy in rhesus monkeys after the removal of greater portions of both temporal lobes and rhinencephalon (1).

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But Birmingham Crown Court heard a psychiatric report suggested a head injury from a road smash 20 years ago had left him with a rare condition - Kluver-Bucy syndrome - which may in part explain his behaviour.