KLUVER-BUCY SYNDROME FOLLOWING HEAT-STROKE IN A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL

A 12-year-old girl developed Kluver-Bucy syndrome (KBS) following heat stroke. She demonstrated the features typical of human KBS, including visual agnosia, hypermetamorphosis, hypersexuality, language disorder with aphasia, hyperorality, placidity, flat affect, and memory dysfun ction. Magnetic resonance imaging 11 1/2 months after onset disclosed mild, diffuse atrophy. Fourteen months after onset, she did not consis tently respond to language or communicate verbally, and was dependent on others, A comparison is made with previously reported KBS cases in children.