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Sexual Fetishism Associated with Temporal Lobe Dysrhythmia and Learning Disability: Two Case Studies
Author(s) -
ElBadri Selim M.,
Robertshaw Barbara A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
british journal of learning disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 1354-4187
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1998.tb00061.x
Subject(s) - fetishism , temporal lobe , psychology , epilepsy , carbamazepine , association (psychology) , learning disability , sexual dysfunction , lobe , etiology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , psychotherapist , anatomy , sociology , anthropology
Sexual disorders in epileptic patients have attracted much attention. Several reports stress the occurrence of fetishism in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy or dysfunction. Fetishism in association with EEG evidence of temporal lobe(s) dysfunction in two males with learning disability who improved with carbamazepine treatment is described and its possible aetiology is discussed.