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Bulimia

Bulimia (bulimia; Greek bus – a bull + limos – hunger; synonym: a kinoreksiya, hunger "wolf") – the pathological, pristupoobrazny unsatiable feeling of hunger which is often followed by abdominal pains and the general weakness; it is noted at damages of a brain, a hyper dysinsulinism.

 
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The most rare disease – a disease the Kura. Only representatives of the tribe Faure in New Guinea are ill it. The patient dies of laughter. It is considered that eating of a human brain is an origin of a disease.