'Gourmand syndrome': Eating passion associated with right anterior lesions

Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1185-1190

  Regard, Marianne ^a,b   Landis, Theodor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEEDING DISORDER; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030944163     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.48.5.1185     Document Type: Article

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