Kleptomania and head injury etc

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People have been attributing every other mental illness to head
injury.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptomania

has a citation:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15602100

There is a research report:
Kleptomania After Head Trauma: Two Case Reports and Combination
Treatment Strategies
By Aizer, Anat MD; Lowengrub, Katherine MD; Dannon, Pinhas N MD

From The Rehovot Community Mental Health & Rehabilitation Center, Tel

Aviv University, Rehovot Israel.

and here is the actual article:
http://ljfind.com/post/57031263/

There are 2 case reports. One is an army major and the other is a
Cyprus resident. Lot of things can happen after a head injury while
the brain tries to recover and goes into an overactive state and
remain in that state for months. Were those people had any co-morbid
condition in addition to stealing such as hyperactivity etc? Also,
were they on medication and what type?
I don't see any co-relation between kleptomania and head injury. There
is a connection to psychopathy and head injury. However putting the
Kleptomaniacs also in the psycopathic category may be considered
misdiagnosis.



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People have been attributing every other mental illness to head
injury.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptomania
has a citation:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=...
Kleptomania After Head Trauma: Two Case Reports and Combination
Treatment Strategies
By Aizer, Anat MD; Lowengrub, Katherine MD; Dannon, Pinhas N MD>From The Rehovot Community Mental Health & Rehabilitation Center, Tel
Aviv University, Rehovot Israel.
and here is the actual article:http://ljfind.com/post/57031263/
There are 2 case reports. One is an army major and the other is a
Cyprus resident. Lot of things can happen after a head injury while
the brain tries to recover and goes into an overactive state and
remain in that state for months. Were those people had any co-morbid
condition in addition to stealing such as hyperactivity etc? Also,
were they on medication and what type?
I don't see any co-relation between kleptomania and head injury. There
is a connection to psychopathy and head injury. However putting the
Kleptomaniacs also in the psycopathic category may be considered
misdiagnosis.
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A neural basis for collecting behaviour in humans

http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/128/1/201

Steven W. Anderson, Hanna Damasio and Antonio R. Damasio
Collecting behaviour is commonplace in the normal population, but
there has been little investigation of its neural basis in humans. The
observation that collecting behaviour can assume pathological
proportions in patients with certain patterns of brain damage led us
to hypothesize that dysfunction in a system encompassing mesial
prefrontal cortices accounts for abnormal collecting and may guide
normal collecting. We tested the hypothesis in 86 subjects with focal
lesions of the telencephalon, by relating the neuroanatomical
placement of the lesions to the presence of repetitive and
indiscriminate acquisition behaviour and impaired discard behaviour.
The subjects had no history of psychiatric disease or abnormal
collecting behaviour prior to lesion onset. Lesions were analysed with
high-resolution three-dimensional MRI. Collecting behaviour was
evaluated with a standardized questionnaire completed by a close
relative of each subject. Thirteen subjects exhibited abnormal
collecting, characterized by massive and disruptive accumulation of
useless objects. In all cases, the abnormality of collecting behaviour
was severe and persisted despite attempted interventions and obvious
negative consequences. There were no differences between pathological
collectors and non-collectors on tests of executive functions or
anterograde memory. All subjects with pathological collecting
behaviour had damage to the mesial frontal region (including the right
polar sector and the anterior cingulate), but there was no damage to
most of the subcortical structures that, in species such as rodents,
are known to drive the acquisition and retention of objects. The
evidence suggests that damage to the mesial frontal region disrupts a
mechanism which normally modulates subcortically driven
predispositions to acquire and collect, and adjusts these
predispositions to environmental context.



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People have been attributing every other mental illness to head
injury.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptomania
has a citation:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=...
Kleptomania After Head Trauma: Two Case Reports and Combination
Treatment Strategies
By Aizer, Anat MD; Lowengrub, Katherine MD; Dannon, Pinhas N MD>From The Rehovot Community Mental Health & Rehabilitation Center, Tel
Aviv University, Rehovot Israel.
and here is the actual article:http://ljfind.com/post/57031263/
There are 2 case reports. One is an army major and the other is a
Cyprus resident. Lot of things can happen after a head injury while
the brain tries to recover and goes into an overactive state and
remain in that state for months. Were those people had any co-morbid
condition in addition to stealing such as hyperactivity etc? Also,
were they on medication and what type?
I don't see any co-relation between kleptomania and head injury. There
is a connection to psychopathy and head injury. However putting the
Kleptomaniacs also in the psycopathic category may be considered
misdiagnosis.
'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`''`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`
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A neural basis for collecting behaviour in humans
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/128/1/201
Steven W. Anderson, Hanna Damasio and Antonio R. Damasio
Collecting behaviour is commonplace in the normal population, but
there has been little investigation of its neural basis in humans. The
observation that collecting behaviour can assume pathological
proportions in patients with certain patterns of brain damage led us
to hypothesize that dysfunction in a system encompassing mesial
prefrontal cortices accounts for abnormal collecting and may guide
normal collecting. We tested the hypothesis in 86 subjects with focal
lesions of the telencephalon, by relating the neuroanatomical
placement of the lesions to the presence of repetitive and
indiscriminate acquisition behaviour and impaired discard behaviour.
The subjects had no history of psychiatric disease or abnormal
collecting behaviour prior to lesion onset. Lesions were analysed with
high-resolution three-dimensional MRI. Collecting behaviour was
evaluated with a standardized questionnaire completed by a close
relative of each subject. Thirteen subjects exhibited abnormal
collecting, characterized by massive and disruptive accumulation of
useless objects. In all cases, the abnormality of collecting behaviour
was severe and persisted despite attempted interventions and obvious
negative consequences. There were no differences between pathological
collectors and non-collectors on tests of executive functions or
anterograde memory. All subjects with pathological collecting
behaviour had damage to the mesial frontal region (including the right
polar sector and the anterior cingulate), but there was no damage to
most of the subcortical structures that, in species such as rodents,
are known to drive the acquisition and retention of objects. The
evidence suggests that damage to the mesial frontal region disrupts a
mechanism which normally modulates subcortically driven
predispositions to acquire and collect, and adjusts these
predispositions to environmental context.
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Sanjaya Saxena et all did some research on compulsive hoarding where
they showed that they have less brain metabolism in the cingulated
area of the brain.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/161/6/1038
On Table 2, I don't see any data that supports that hypothesis. Then
on Figure 1, he goes on to say that they have 'Significantly' lower
metabolism in the brain but there is no data to support it. Where is
the table that shows the significantly reduced activity?



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