Brain hubs boil when hoarders face pitching their own stuff http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120809190754.htm “In patients with hoarding disorder, parts of a decision-making brain circuit under-activated when dealing with others' possessions, but over-activated when deciding whether to keep or discard their own things, a new study has found.”
PET Study Finds Neurobiology Of Hoarders Differs From Other Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Patients http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040603070801.htm “A PET imaging study conducted at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute indicates the neurobiology of America's estimated 1 million compulsive hoarders differs significantly from people with other obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms.” ____________________
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