Brain Region Identified That Controls Collecting Behavior

The abnormal need/desire to collect things not survival based has recently been linked to the right mesial prefrontal cortex. Why this is interesting to me? Well, this area of the brain also controls the monetary reward outcomes as well as error detection to control inhibition. It would seem to me that the error deteciton has been flawed and the inhibition not checked for the certain collecting behavior.

"A pretty clear finding jumped out at us: damage to a part of the frontal lobes of the cortex, particularly on the right side, was shared by the individuals with abnormal behavior," Anderson said. "Our study shows that when this particular part of the prefrontal cortex is injured, the very primitive collecting urge loses its guidance

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