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The late effects of necrotizing encephalitis of the temporal lobes and limbic areas: a clinico-pathological study of 10 cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

R. Hierons ,
I. Janota  and
J. A. N. Corsellis
R. Hierons*
Affiliation:
Brook General Hospital, London, Departments of Neuropathology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex
I. Janota
Affiliation:
Brook General Hospital, London, Departments of Neuropathology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex
J. A. N. Corsellis
Affiliation:
Brook General Hospital, London, Departments of Neuropathology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr R. Hierons, Department of Neurology, Brook General Hospital, Shooters Hill Road, London SE18 4LW.
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Synopsis

The clinical and neuropathological features are reported of 10 patients who had suffered, usually for several years, from the after effects of an acute or sub-acute necrotizing encephalitis of the limbic grey matter and of the adjacent temporal lobes. Emphasis is laid on the memory disturbance and on the behavioural and emotional aberrations that tended to occur and that are in some ways reminiscent of the Klüver–Bucy syndrome.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 1978 , pp. 21 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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