Heinrich Klüver and the temporal lobe syndrome.
Heinrich Klüver and Paul Bucy described a constellation of symptoms in monkeys following large resections of the temporal lobe that they termed the "temporal lobe syndrome"; now commonly referred to as the Klüver-Bucy syndrome. The aim of this paper is threefold: (1) to review Heinrich Kluver's behavioral studies on monkeys that led up to his temporal lobe experiments with Paul Bucy; (2) to understand why Brown and Schäfer dismissed the behavioral changes in temporal lobe monkeys they had observed fifty years prior to the studies of Klüver and Bucy; and (3) to show that Klüver's phenomenologically motivated conceptual paradigm helped to unify both neuropsychological and neuroanatomical theories regarding the visual and emotive functions of the non-human primate temporal lobe.
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Harvard Medical School Neurology Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, East, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
D000818:Animals; D001519:Behavior; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000266:history*; D009445:Neuroanatomy / Q000266:history*; D009484:Neuropsychology / Q000266:history*; D011323:Primates; D013702:Temporal Lobe; D014481:United States