title: Hoarding pet animals in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although severe hoarding symptoms have been considered rare among obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) samples, the prevalence of animal hoarding in OCD is unknown. To help clarifying this issue, we searched for cases of animal hoarding among patients attending a university OCD clinic (n=420).
  
  
  METHODS
  Chart review.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only two patients from our sample exhibited animal hoarding (<0.5%) and only one of them presented additional obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Both cases also collected inanimate objects, presented low insight, exhibited poor response to serotonin reuptake inhibitors and did not adhere to therapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There seems to be a lack of relationship between animal hoarding and OCD. However, further studies with larger numbers of patients are needed to better define their psychopathological profile and more appropriate nosological insertion.
authors.affiliation: 1Programa de Transtornos Obsessivo-Compulsivos e de Ansiedade,Instituto de Psiquiatria,Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ),Rio de Janeiro,Brasil.
authors.forename: André L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Campos-Lima
authors.affiliation: 2Departmento de Neurologia,Psicologia e Psiquiatria, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu,Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho,São Paulo,Brasil.
authors.forename: Albina R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.affiliation: 3Monash Clinical and Imaging Neuroscience (MCIN) Laboratory,School of Psychological Sciences & Monash Biomedical Imaging (MBI) Facility,Monash University,Victoria,Australia.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yücel
authors.affiliation: 4Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre (MNC),University of Melbourne,Victoria,Australia.
authors.forename: Ben J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.affiliation: 5Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino (IDOR),Rio de Janeiro,Brasil.
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moll
authors.affiliation: 1Programa de Transtornos Obsessivo-Compulsivos e de Ansiedade,Instituto de Psiquiatria,Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ),Rio de Janeiro,Brasil.
authors.forename: Gabriela M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.affiliation: 1Programa de Transtornos Obsessivo-Compulsivos e de Ansiedade,Instituto de Psiquiatria,Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ),Rio de Janeiro,Brasil.
authors.forename: Leonardo F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Fontenelle
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D000067836:Hoarding Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D057805:Pets; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
keywords: psychopathology