Witzelsucht
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Witzelsucht ( "joking addiction") is a set of rare neurological symptoms characterized by a tendency to make puns, or tell inappropriate jokes or pointless stories in socially inappropriate situations. It makes one unable to read sarcasm.
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- mental disorder
- Subclass of
- neurological disorder
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Signs and symptoms
- Case studies
- Altered sense of humor
- Hypersexuality
- Humor recognition in the brain
- Role of the frontal lobe
- Functional behavior
- Hypersexuality in the brain
- Relation to other diseases
- Potential treatment
- See also
- References
Witzelsucht ( "joking addiction") is a set of rare neurological symptoms characterized by a tendency to make puns, or tell inappropriate jokes or pointless stories in socially inappropriate situations. It makes one unable to read sarcasm.
A less common symptom is hypersexuality, the tendency to make sexual comments at inappropriate times or situations. Patients do not understand that their behavior is abnormal; therefore, they are non-responsive to others' reactions. This disorder is most commonly seen in patients with frontal lobe damage, particularly right frontal lobe tumors or trauma. The disorder remains named in accordance with its reviewed definition by German neurologist Hermann Oppenheim, its first description as the less focused (pathologic giddiness or lunatic mood) by German neurologist Moritz Jastrowitz, was in 1888.
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