A compulsive collecting behavior following an A-com aneurysmal rupture

Neurology. 2001 Feb 13;56(3):398-400. doi: 10.1212/wnl.56.3.398.

Abstract

Hoarding behavior associated with focal brain injury is rarely reported. The authors report a 46-year-old man with pathologic collecting behavior after a left orbitofrontal and caudate injury from an aneurysmal rupture of anterior 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 hoarding.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Compulsive Behavior / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / complications*
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / physiopathology*
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / psychology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Rupture / physiopathology
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed