Hoarding Disorder
Compulsive hoarding, also known as hoarding disorder, is a behavioral pattern characterized by excessive acquisition of and an inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause significant distress or impairment.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W095
Diagnosis: Hoarding Disorder
US Patients: 2-5%
World Patients:
Sex Ratio:
Age Onset: Ages 11-15
Brain Area: anterior ventromedial prefrontal and cingulate cortices or anterior cingulate cortes and insula
Symptoms: excessive acquisition and inability to discard items covering living areas; may create injuries and adverse effects on others
Progression: frequently hoarded: books or animals; many hoarders do not recognize it as a problem
Causes: genetic and stressful life experiences; seeing human-like qualities in objects – and over-value them;
Medications: monoamine uptake inhibitors and antidepressants have shown some positive effects
Therapies: CBT-counseling which addresses motivations for collecting – and for retaining. Home visits help counselors adapt.
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- An exploration of neural predictors of treatment compliance in cognitive-behavioral group therapy for hoarding disorderby Blaise L Worden on May 6, 2024
A persistent and influential barrier to effective cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for patients with hoarding disorder (HD) is treatment retention and compliance. Recent research has suggested that HD patients have abnormal brain activity identified by functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) in regions often engaged for executive functioning (e.g., right superior frontal gyrus, anterior insula, and anterior cingulate), which raises questions about whether these abnormalities could relate to...
- Impact of Benzodiazepines and Illness Duration on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder during COVID-19 in Italy: Exploring Symptoms' Evolutionary Benefitsby Giordano D'Urso on April 27, 2024
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is believed to follow a waxing and waning course, often according to environmental stressors. During the COVID-19 pandemic, pre-existing OCD symptoms were reported to increase and to change from checking to washing behaviors, while new-onset symptoms were predominantly of the hoarding type. In the present study, we followed the evolution of OCD symptoms, anxiety, depression, and insights of illness in forty-six OCD patients throughout the pandemic. Clinical...
- Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Adolescents and Adults with Down Syndrome: Results from a Scoping Rapid Reviewby Jill C Fodstad on April 12, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: While the outcomes of most interventions yielded partial or significant reduction in symptoms, poor research quality and limited generalizability noted across all studies make it difficult to inform guidelines for caring for this high-needs population. In the future, we believe it is necessary to perform more rigorous research focused on treating obsessive compulsive symptoms in individuals with Down syndrome with sufficient follow-up to fully assess treatment effectiveness.
- Rates of diagnosis and service utilization in veterans with hoarding disorderby Jessica J Zakrzewski on April 12, 2024
Hoarding Disorder (HD) is a prominent and disabling neuropsychiatric condition defined by the inability to discard objects resulting in impairing levels of clutter. The prevalence rate is 2-6 % and increases with age. The aging Veteran population is a high risk group for impairment associated with HD. Medical and psychiatric comorbidities as well as associated rates of disability and poor quality of life are very common in both HD and the related disorder of OCD. We examined rates of HD and OCD...