Brain scans of dementia patients with coprophagia showed neurodegeneration
Friday, May 20, 2016 - 13:31
in Health & Medicine
Coprophagia, eating one's feces, is common in animals but rarely seen in humans. Now researchers have reviewed the cases of a dozen adult patients diagnosed with coprophagia over the past 20 years and found that the behavior is associated with a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly neurodegenerative dementias.