Witzelsucht, from the German witzel(ei) meaning pun or joke, and sucht meaning addiction or yearning, is a set of rare
neurological symptoms characterized by the patient's uncontrollable tendency to
pun, tell inappropriate jokes and pointless or irrelevant stories at inconvenient moments. The patient nevertheless finds these utterances intensely amusing. It is associated with small lesions of the
orbitofrontal cortex.
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