Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2024
First described in 1888 by neurologists Schafer and Brown, and later in 1939 by German American experimental psychologist Heinrick Kluver and American neurosurgeon Paul Clancy Bucy, now named Kluver–Bucy syndrome (KBS), this condition was first described after bilateral temporal lobectomy in monkeys. It was later described in humans in 1955 in the case of a 19-year-old male with epilepsy, again requiring treatment with bilateral temporal lobectomy.
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