Kleptomania
Kleptomania
Kleptomania, a morbid impulse to steal, has been related to the obsessive-compulsive spectrum of behaviors in patients with frontal lobe dysfunction.
References
Kozian R, Otto FG. Treatment of a patient with kleptomania and frontal lobe dysfunction. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2001; 70: 279 (abstract)
Cross References
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