Klüver–Bucy syndrome
a condition resulting from damage to both medial temporal lobes and marked by hypersexuality and a tendency to examine all objects by touch or by placing them in the mouth. Other symptoms may include visual agnosia (inability to visually recognize objects), decreased emotional responsivity (including loss of normal fear and anger responses), distractibility, and memory loss. The syndrome is observed in laboratory animals following temporal lobe ablation and, rarely, in humans following extensive bilateral temporal damage caused by herpes-simplex encephalitis or trauma. [Heinrich Klüver (1897–1975), German-born U.S. neurologist; Paul Bucy (1904–1992), U.S. neurosurgeon]