Hypersexuality and its response to citalopram in a patient with hypothalamic hamartoma and precocious puberty
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Hypersexuality and its response to citalopram in a patient with hypothalamic hamartoma and precocious puberty.
Hypersexuality has been defined as the subjective experience of loss of control over sexuality (Catalan and Singh, 1995). It is known to be associated with mood, impulse and compulsive disorder (Coleman and Kafka, 1991) and with biological factors such as brain injury involving septal nuclei (Gorman and Cummins, 1992) and dementia (Potocnik, 1992). Sexual addiction is synonymous with hypersexua...
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عنوان ژورنال: The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1461-1457,1469-5111
DOI: 10.1017/s1461145705005493