When you're falling down a wikipedia black hole and you find a syndrome in monkeys that describes your life. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by applebusch@lemmy.world to c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Klüver–Bucy syndrome may present with compulsive eating, hypersexuality, insertion of inappropriate objects in the mouth (hyperorality), visual agnosia, and docility

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 points 1 year ago

We did it, boys. We returned to monke.

[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Humans are fucking aweful:

As part of an investigation by Heinrich Klüver in the 1930s into the area affected by mescaline, Klüver arranged to have the temporal lobes of a number of rhesus monkeys bilaterally removed by Paul Bucy, a neurosurgeon.

[-] amio@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Klüver-Bucy is definitely a thing in humans, too. It's a result of brain damage, so let's hope that ain't it.

[-] applebusch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's what lead me there. I was reading about the limbic system and thinking man limbic system issues sound a lot like ADHD symptoms. The way I think about it is degrees of decreased function. Like with ADHD the system largely functions, just slightly less than in neurotypical people, and with this it's closer to completely nonfunctional. It's just interesting to see the parallels.