Psychology
Why some brain damage can erase fear and trigger hypersexuality
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Lose chunks of your temporal lobes and you'll suddenly want to mate with a chair and eat handfuls of dirt. Klüver-Bucy syndrome strips away your amygdala's fear response and replaces it with extreme hypersexuality and an uncontrollable urge to put completely inappropriate objects in your mouth. It's the ultimate biological factory reset, turning a functioning adult into a fearless toddler with an aggressive libido.
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