Kluver-Bucy syndrome following heat stroke in a 12-year-old girl

• Published in: Pediatric neurology Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 73 - 76
• Main Authors: Pitt, Davis C., Kriel, Robert L., Wagner, Nancy C., Krach, Linda E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.07.1995; Elsevier
• Subjects: Agnosia - diagnosis; Agnosia - etiology; Aphasia - diagnosis; Aphasia - etiology; Atrophy; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - pathology; Brain Damage, Chronic - diagnosis; Brain Damage, Chronic - etiology; Child; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Heat Stroke - complications; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; Neurologic Examination; Neuropsychological Tests; Psychomotor Agitation - diagnosis; Psychomotor Agitation - etiology; Temporal Lobe - pathology; Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents; Human; Case study; Adolescent; Heat stroke; Bibliographic survey; Complication; Female; Psychopathology; Behavioral disorder
• ISSN: 0887-8994; 1873-5150
• DOI: 10.1016/0887-8994(95)00084-S

A 12-year-old girl developed Kluver-Bucy syndrome (KBS) following heat stroke. She demonstrated the features typical of human KBS, including visual agnosia, hypermetamorphosis, hypersexuality, language disorder with aphasia, hyperorality, placidity, flat affect, and memory dysfunction. Magnetic resonance imaging 11 1 2 months after onset disclosed mild, diffuse atrophy. Fourteen months after onset, she did not consistently respond to language or communicate verbally, and was dependent on others. A comparison is made with previously reported KBS cases in children.