Hyperphagia

Hyperphagia

Hyperphagia is increased or excessive eating. Binge eating, particularly of sweet things, is one of the neurobehavioral disturbances seen in certain of the frontotemporal dementias. Hyperphagia may be one feature of a more general tendency to put things in the mouth (hyperorality), for example in the Klüver-Bucy syndrome.

Cross References

Hyperorality; Klüver-Bucy syndrome