COMPULSIVE HOARDING

RESEARCH

 



 

Behavior Research Therapy 2007 Nov; 45(11):2754-63. Epub 2007 Aug 8

HOARDING AND COMPULSIVE BUYING
Hoarding in a compulsive buying sample 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17868641?ordinalpos=145&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum


 
Behavior Research Therapy 2007 Apr; 45(4):673-86. Epub 2006 Jul 5.
Hoarding in obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine



Science Daily-University of Iowa Research- January 2005
Brain Region Identified That Controls Collecting Behavior
By studying patients who developed abnormal hoarding behavior following brain injury, neurology researchers in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine have identified an area in the prefrontal cortex that appears to control collecting behavior. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041219183729.htm



Hoarders' Scans Reveal Distinct Brain Signature
Recent positron emission tomography (PET) imaging studies by scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles suggest that the neurobiology of America's estimated 1 million compulsive hoarders differs significantly from people with other obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms as well as healthy individuals. The findings also suggest that hoarders might respond best to medications that target particular brain systems. The study by Sanjaya Saxena, M.D., and colleagues detected less brain activity in the anterior cingulate gyrus of compulsive hoarders than in other OCD patients. This brain structure helps govern decision-making, focused attention, motivation, and problem solving ? cognitive functions that frequently are impaired in compulsive hoarders. The study also found a correlation in all of the subjects with OCD between the severity of hoarding symptoms and lower brain activity in the anterior cingulate gyrus.

Saxena S, Brody AL, Maidment KM, Smith EC, Zohrabi N, Katz E, Baker SK, Baxter LR Jr.
Cerebral glucose metabolism in obsessive-compulsive hoarding. Am J Psychiatry. 2004 Jun;161(6):1038-48.



SRI medication effective in treating compulsive hoarding patients 10/24/2006
In a paper published on-line in advance of publication in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, Sanjaya Saxena, M.D., Director of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) Program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, reports the surprising finding that the serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SRI) medication, paroxetine, is effective in treating patients with compulsive hoarding syndrome.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoc--sme102406.php




UCLA PET Study on the Neurobiology of Hoarding
UCLA PET Study finds Neurobiology of Hoarders differs from other OCD patients June 2004 http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=5218




Excellent  Synopsis of  related research articles

An UPDATE ON HOARDING 9/7/05
www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/hoarding/pubs/litreview.pdf -



Clearinghouse on Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly (CANE)
Selected Annotated Bibliography:

Compulsive Hoarding - A Form of Self-Neglect
(1995-2005)

CANE Annotated Bibliography - National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA)



A List of Randy Frost, Steketee, Hartl and others research related to Hoarding

Frost, R., & Gross, R. (1993). The hoarding of possessions. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 31, 367-382.

Frost, R.O., Hartl, T.L., Christian, R., & Williams, R. (1995). The value of possessions in compulsive hoarding: Patterns of use and attachment. Behaviour and Research Therapy, 33, 897-902.

Frost, R.O., & Hartl, T.L. (1996). A cognitive-behavioral model of compulsive hoarding. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34, 341-350.

Frost, R.O., Krause, M.S., & Steketee, G. (1996). Hoarding and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Behavior Modification, 20, 116-132.

Frost, R.O., Kim, H., Morris, C., Bloss, C., Murray-Close, M. & Steketee, G. (1998). Hoarding, compulsive buying, and reasons for saving. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36,657-664.

Frost, R. & Steketee, G. (1998). Hoarding: Clinical aspects and treatment strategies. In M. Jenike, L. Baer, & J. Minnichelo, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Practical Management (3rd Ed.). Mosby Inc., St. Louis.

Frost, R.O., Steketee, G., Youngreb, V.R., & Mallya, G.K. (1999). The threat of the housing inspector: A case of hoarding. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 6, 270-278.

Hartl, T.L. & Frost, R.O. (1999). An experimental case study of a cognitive-behavioral treatment of compulsive hoarding: A single case multiple baseline design. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 37, 451-462.

Frost, R.O. & Steketee, G. (in press). Issues in the treatment of compulsive hoarding. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.

Frost, R.O., Steketee, G., & Williams, L. (2000). Hoarding: A community health problem. Health and Social Care in the Community, 8, 229-234.

Frost, R.O., Steketee, G., Williams, L., & Warren, R. (2000).Mood, disability, and personality disorder symptoms in hoarding, obsessive compulsive disorder, and control subjects. Behavior Research and Therapy, 38, 1071-1082.

Steketee, G., Frost, R.O., & Kim, H-J. (2001). Hoarding by elderly people. Health and Social Work, 26, 176-184.

Steketee, G., Frost, R.O., Wincze, Greene, K., & Douglass, H. (2000). Group and Individual treatment of compulsive hoarding: A pilot study. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 28, 259-268.

Frost, R.O. & Hartl, T. (in press). Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding. In R.G. Menzies & P. deSilva (Eds.) Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. John Wiley and Sons.

Frost, R.O., Steketee, G., &Williams, L. (in press). Compulsive huying, compulsive hoarding and obsessive-compulsive behavior. Behavior Therapy.

Frost, R.O., Steketee, G., & Greene, K. (in press). Cognitive and behavioral treatment of compulsive hoarding. In M.H.Freeston & S. Taylor (Eds.) Cognitive Approaches to Treating Obsessions and Compulsions: A Clinical Casebook. Erlbaum.

Hartl, T.L., Savage, C.R., Frost, R.O., Allen, G.J. Deckersbach, T., Steketee, G., & Duffany, S.R. (under editorial consideration). Actual and Perceived memory deficits among individuals with hoarding symptoms.

Steketee, G., Frost, R.O., & Kyrios, M. (under editorial consideration). Beliefs about possessions among compulsive hoarders

Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium.(under editorial consideration). Public health implications of animal hoarding.

Coles, M.E., Frost, R.O., Heimberg, R.G. & Steketee, G. (under editorial consideration). Hoarding behaviors in a large college sample.

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