Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: UMLS:C0020505 (hyperphagia)
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A 55-year-old man had hydrocephalus caused by a third-ventricular tumor. Mentation improved after ventricular shunting and radiation therapy. Progressive hyperphagia, obesity, memory impairment, and hypersomnolence developed 13 months later, and he died 2 years after diagnosis. At necropsy, a gangliocytoma filled the third ventricle, resulting in compression and necrosis of the ventromedial and posterior hypothalamic nuclei. Clinical manifestations were attributed to these lesions.
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PMID:Gangliocytoma of third ventricle: hyperphagia, somnolence, and dementia. 695 31

An adult manifested a tetrad of neurobehavioral findings consisting of episodic rage, emotional lability, hyperphagia with obesity, and memory impairment with intellectual decline following surgical removal of a craniopharyngioma. Post-mortem investigation of the topography of the lesion as well as review of previously reported cases suggest that this tetrad represents a specific neurobehavioral syndrome referable to damage to the ventromedial hypothalamus.
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PMID:Altered behavior associated with damage to the ventromedial hypothalamus: a distinctive syndrome. 2448 1