Hypersexuality following bilateral thalamic infarction: case report
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2006000100032