'Gourmand syndrome' in a child with pharmacoresistant epilepsy

Autor: Theodor Landis, Thomas Schmitt-Mechelke, Christian Korff, Mary Kurian, Margitta Seeck, Jacqueline Delavelle
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2008
Předmět:
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Hemorrhagic lesion
Drug Resistance
Appetite
Anorexia
Neuropsychological Tests
Dominance
Cerebral/physiology
Feeding and Eating Disorders
Lesion
Behavioral Neuroscience
Epilepsy
Feeding Behavior/physiology
Parietal Lobe
Cerebral Hemorrhage/complications/physiopathology
medicine
Humans
Parietal Lobe/physiopathology
Dominance
Cerebral
Psychiatry
Child
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Gourmand syndrome
Eating Disorders/diagnosis/drug therapy/physiopathology
digestive
oral
and skin physiology
Anticonvulsants/therapeutic use
Appetite/physiology
Epilepsy/diagnosis/drug therapy/physiopathology
Feeding Behavior
medicine.disease
Pharmacoresistant epilepsy
Obesity
Temporal Lobe
ddc:616.8
Eating disorders
Neurology
Anticonvulsants
Neurology (clinical)
Temporal Lobe/physiopathology
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Zdroj: Epilepsy & Behavior, Vol. 13, No 2 (2008) pp. 413-415
ISSN: 1525-5050
Popis: We report the case of a 10-year-old boy with pharmacoresistant epilepsy, symptomatic of a right temporoparietal hemorrhagic lesion, who displayed an eating passion as described for the gourmand syndrome (GS) in adults and discuss the role of epilepsy in GS. This patient presented with a significant change in his eating habits (abnormal preoccupation with the preparation and eating of fine-quality food) concordant with the onset of his seizure disorder, without any previous history of eating disorders or psychiatric illness. This observation corroborates the important role of the right cerebral hemisphere in disturbed eating habits, including the relatively benign GS, and, possibly rarely, in less benign eating disorders such as anorexia and obesity.
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