Remission of lifelong episodic dyscontrol after bilateral dorsolateral temporal lobe damage

Abstract

A 45-year-old married woman with fits of episodic dyscontrol since an early age suffered a bilateral injury of the dorsolateral temporal lobe after which such episodes vanished for good. The remission of her lifelong proneness to aggression was so remarkable that her relatives and friends unanimously welcomed her "new personality". The post-traumatic taming in this case was an unanticipated collateral effect of brain damage with a salutary change of personality. This change possibly resulted from the release, due to the bitemporal injury, of inclinations that had not hitherto been fully expressed in the patient's mind and behavior due to the overriding influence of episodic dyscontrol on her ordinary conduct.

Sint nikkedukke – nevrologisk syndrom i en kriminalroman

“…I boken lar alle seg kjøpe: leger, forskere og universitet samt U.S. Food and Drug Administration En kasuistikk fra 2016 om en kvinne med livslang episodisk dyskontroll tyder på at fasciculus uncinatus kan spille en viktig rolle (figur 2). Etter et kraftig slag mot hodet forsvant det uheldige personlighetstrekket hos kvinnen (23). Det posttraumatiske forløpet ble dokumentert med en validert skala for personlighetsendring (24), mens detaljert billedfremstilling av hjernen over tid viste atrofi av fasciculus uncinatus (saerlig høyre fasikkel).…”