PATHOPHYSIOLOGY (cont.)
A syndrome similar to autism in adult Psychiatry
(1975 Marlowe, W. B., et. al., Cortex)
- after temporal lobe damage
14-year old boy - herpes simplex encephalitis
(1989, Greer,M K, Lyons-Crews, M.,Mauldin, et. al., F. R. III.)
- Significant language, social, and memory
deficits
- cognitive and behavioral deficits
- temporal lobe damage