After a stroke may develop pathological generosity

49-year-old man from Brazil after the stroke started helping people and since then can not stop. This pathological generosity - a consequence of the changes in the brain caused by a serious illness.

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The name of the Brazilian ethical reasons not known, but it is reported that he was the victim of pathological generosity - a psychological condition that causes him to constantly assist the needy. As a result of the disease the man began to spend all their money on food and drinks for the children in the street, he lost his job and stated that "life is too short" to spend it on trips to the office. As it turned out, after stroke   He had damaged part of the brain regulates complex thought and decision-making.

Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro came to the conclusion that the patient began to show "excessive generosity and stable" after bleeding in the brain. stroke, has become a consequence of chronic hypertension caused by bleeding in the subcortical region of the brain of the patient, which is associated with the regulation of behavior.

However, many doctors, to get acquainted with the case, found it amazing. Even if well established, where it was bleeding in the brain, based on this information it is impossible to predict changes in human behavior. "Although some behavioral changes are not unusual after stroke This case seems to me something very interesting - says Dr. Larry Goldstein, a neurologist at the Center for Stroke at Duke University in the United States. - Most victims of stroke observed very different changes in behavior, such as depression and depressed state. "

Often strokes cause uncontrollable laughter or tears, and gemiagnoziyu in which people do not take part of the visual information. The case of the Brazilian pathological generosity may help scientists understand these manifestations of human nature, as altruism and selfishness. (READ MORE)

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