Sexual Fetishism Associated with Temporal Lobe Dysrhythmia and Learning Disability: Two Case Studies

Sexual disorders in epileptic patients have attracted much attention. Several reports stress the occurrence of fetishism in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy or dysfunction. Fetishism in association with EEG evidence of temporal lobe(s) dysfunction in two males with learning disability who improved with carbamazepine treatment is described and its possible aetiology is discussed.