hypersexuality

Etiology

• Kluver-Bucy syndrome
  • incudes disinhibition from dementia
• Klein-Levine syndrome
• hippocampal sclerosis
• pallidotomy
• postencephalitic parkinsonism
• post right frontal craniotomy for suprasellar meningioma
• anoxic encephalopathy
• head trauma
• Klinefelter's syndrome
• upper brainstem glioma extending to the hypothalamus
• right frontal lobe AV malformation in region of septum & hypothalamus
• diffuse multiple sclerosis

Pathology

• bilateral anterior temporal lobe dysfunction
• in sexually aroused healthy men, increased blood flow in
  • ventral globus pallidus
  • anterior cingulate gyrus
  • anterior temporal cortex

More general terms

• sexual dysfunction