TY  - JOUR
T1  - Trouble letting go: Hoarders
AU  - Kuehn BM
Y1  - 2012/09/26
N1  - 10.1001/2012.jama.11449
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1198
EP  - 1198
VL  - 308
IS  - 12
N2  - 
Patients with hoarding disorder acquire excessive numbers of objects and have difficulty discarding them, leading to an accumulation of clutter that can create unsafe or unsanitary conditions. Some clinicians have considered the condition a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder. To test this idea, a multi-institution team of researchers compared brain activity during decision making about possessions in 43 adults with hoarding disorder, 31 with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and 33 healthy controls (Tolin DF et al. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2012;69[8]:832-841).

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/2012.jama.11449
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2012.jama.11449
ER  -