Kluver-Bucy Syndrome

The Kluver-Bucy syndrome has been found in several neurological diseases. The most prominent symptom of this syndrome is a lack of affect (Kolb and Whishaw, 2008). In the case of animals, the do not exhibit fear When there are serious threads to them. This behavioral syndrome was experimentally studied in monkeys following bilateral anterior temporal lobectomy. The symptoms are loss of fear and unexitement, a choose of diet that they formerly rejected as a result of indifference, increased (same) sex drive including for objects, very reactive to all visual signs, studying objects with the mouth and finally visual agnosia. The syndrome is as well found in humans and is the result of bilateral amygdala and inferior cortex removal.