A compulsive collecting behavior following an A-com aneurysmal rapture

Authors
Hahm, DS Kang, Y Cheong, SS Na, DL
Citation
Ds. Hahm et al., A compulsive collecting behavior following an A-com aneurysmal rapture, NEUROLOGY, 56(3), 2001, pp. 398-400
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Neurology,"Neurosciences & Behavoir
Journal title
NEUROLOGY
ISSN journal
00283878 → ACNP
Volume
56
Issue
3
Year of publication
2001
Pages
398 - 400
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-3878(20010213)56:3<398:ACCBFA>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Hoarding behavior associated with focal brain injury is rarely reported. Th e authors report a 46-year-old man with pathologic collecting behavior afte r a left orbitofrontal and caudate injury from an aneurysmal rupture of ant erior communicating artery. His hoarding, an impulse control disorder or an ego-syntonic compulsion, was restricted to one specific item (toy bullet). Treatments with sertraline or fluoxetine were not effective for the hoardi ng.