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Published Online: May 1994

Repetitive and compulsive behavior in frontal lobe degenerations

Publication: The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

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The authors review the relationship of repetitive behaviors to frontal lobe degenerations and report the repetitive and compulsive behaviors, radiologic imaging findings, and neuropathology of 3 patients with dementia secondary to frontal lobe degeneration. These 3 patients and 78% of 46 proven pathologic cases of frontal lobe degeneration described in the literature demonstrate repetitive behaviors ranging from motor stereotypies to complex obsessive-compulsive disorder. This review suggests that combined damage to the frontal lobe, caudate nucleus, and globus pallidus may account for the repetitive behaviors seen in frontal lobe degenerations, idiopathic obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other neuropsychiatric diseases.

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The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Pages: 100 - 113
PubMed: 8044031

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Published in print: May 1994
Published online: 1 April 2006

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