LHOMME-QUI-RIT - INAPPROPRIATE LAUGHTER AND RELEASE PHENOMENA OF THE FRONTAL SUBDOMINANT LOBE

Authors
VARDI J FINKELSTEIN Y ZLOTOGORSKI Z HOD I
Citation
J. Vardi et al., LHOMME-QUI-RIT - INAPPROPRIATE LAUGHTER AND RELEASE PHENOMENA OF THE FRONTAL SUBDOMINANT LOBE, Behavioral medicine, 20(1), 1994, pp. 44-46
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
08964289
Volume
20
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
44 - 46
Database
ISI
SICI code
0896-4289(1994)20:1<44:L-ILAR>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Witzelsucht and moria are time-honored neurobehavioral terms. Witzelsu cht is a tendency to tell inappropriate jokes, and moria is euphoric b ehavior. Focal right-orbitofrontal parenchymal lesion is often the ana tomical substrate for these behavioral attitudes. This case report pre sents a patient with a longstanding witzelsucht-moria behavior. Single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) showed hypoperfused r ight-frontoparietal area in the absence of structural damage.