Clinical Correlates

Question 1

Ventromedial Hypothalamic Syndrome (Frohlich syndrome) what is the disorder?

Answer 1

Disorder of caloric balance causing obesity attributed to damage of the ventromedial nucleus

Question 2

What happens in diabetes insipidus?

Answer 2

Absence of ADH causes excessive thirst and urination

this may be due to a lesion of the supraoptic or paraventricular nuclei somewhere in PP tract

Question 3

Hypothermia, where is the lesion?

Answer 3

lesion of the posterior hypothalamus leaving the anterior hypothalamus unopposed

Question 4

Hyperthermia, where is the lesion?

Answer 4

lesion of the anterior hypothalamus leaving the posterior hypothalamus unopposed