Behavioral conditions:
(1) mania
(2) compulsive disorder
Medications:
(1) dopamine agonists (given to patients with Parkinson's disease or multiple system atrophy)
(2) levodopa (dopaminergic drug)
(3) any drug facilitating monoaminergic neurotransmission
Neurological conditions:
(1) damage to right hypothalamic region
(2) bilateral temporal disease
(3) right hemispheric stroke
(4) temporal limbic seizures
(5) injury to the septal nuclei
(6) bilateral injury to the basal frontal lobes
(7) dementia
(8) subthalamic nucleus direct brain stimulation (STN DBS)
(9) status/post pallidotomy
Some patients may have more than one explanation for the aberrant behavior.
