education for degenerates

for the past year, my fellow classmates and i have been trying to remember the name of a neurological disorder where the afflicted randomly hump inanimate objects. well, thanks to shounuck, the answer is finally here. behold...in all its glory...klüver-bucy syndrome:

Klüver-Bucy syndrome is a rare neurological disorder that causes individuals to put objects in their mouths and engage in inappropriate sexual behavior. Other symptoms may include visual agnosia (inability to visually recognize objects), loss of normal fear and anger responses, memory loss, distractibility, seizures, and dementia. The disorder may be associated with herpes encephalitis and trauma, which can result in brain damage.

for the sake of completeness, it's caused by "[b]ilateral destruction of the amygdaloid body and inferior temporal cortex."

note to self: bilaterally destroy jessica alba's amygdaloid body.

(picture is presumably of a partially scrubbed-off heart tag on koresh dance studio's side door. 20th btwn. chestnut and sansom.)

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