Epilepsy and kleptomania.

Abstract

Kleptomania, defined in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manua of Mental Disorders, Text Revision: DSM-IV-TR, as the inability to resist the impulse to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value, may reflect a form of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder and/or affective spectrum disorder. We report on a patient who developed kleptomania and left temporal lobe epilepsy around the same time; both disorders were completely resolved in this patient with topiramate.

• Authors: Yuksel Kaplan
• Journal: Epilepsy & behavior : E&B (Epilepsy Behav) Vol. 11 Issue 3 Pg. 474-5 (Nov 2007) ISSN: 1525-5050 [Print] United States
• PMID: 17905665 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Anticonvulsants
• Topiramate
• Fructose

Topics

• Adult
• Anticonvulsants (therapeutic use)
• Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders (complications, drug therapy)
• Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe (complications, drug therapy)
• Female
• Fructose (analogs & derivatives, therapeutic use)
• Humans
• Topiramate