A 56-year-old Greek woman developed personality changes, presenting first with prominent hyper-religiosity alternating with periods of retardation, together with social disinhibition. For 10 months before, she had expressed extravagant religiosity, having previously been religiously indifferent. She had begun praying at home, reading Christian magazines and attending church frequently. She had also collected and decorated personal health folders with collages of religious pictures (figure 1). There were no problems with memory, facial recognition or visuospatial function. Figure 1 Saints’ collage by a patient with right temporal lobe atrophy. On examination, she showed psychomotor agitation with severe inability to maintain concentration and could not focus on specific tasks. Nevertheless, she remained orientated to person, place and time, …

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额颞叶痴呆伴右侧颞叶萎缩的过度宗教信仰

一名 56 岁的希腊女性出现了性格变化，首先表现为显着的过度宗教信仰与迟钝时期交替出现，以及社交去抑制。10 个月前，她一直表现出极端的宗教信仰，此前她对宗教信仰漠不关心。她开始在家祈祷、阅读基督教杂志并经常去教堂。她还收集并装饰了带有宗教图片拼贴画的个人健康文件夹（图 1）。记忆、面部识别或视觉空间功能没有问题。图 1 右颞叶萎缩患者的圣徒拼贴画。检查时，她表现出精神运动性激动，严重无法保持注意力集中，无法专注于特定任务。尽管如此，她仍然以人、地点和时间为导向，……