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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- Clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder among individuals who experience health-related obsessive-compulsive symptomsby Sandhiya Nanthakumar on October 19, 2024
BACKGROUND: While some obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) phenotypes are well-established and better understood, it is unclear whether the presence of health-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) is associated with specific clinical characteristics. We aimed to investigate whether OCS involving concerns with illness, diseases, body parts or aspects of appearance (i.e. health-related OCS) are associated with differences in demographics, experience of stressful life events, clinical...
- How accurately can supervised machine learning model predict a targeted psychiatric disorder?by Haitham Jahrami on October 15, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: Study findings strongly suggest that ML can, in the future, play a significant role in the risk assessment of psychiatric disorders prior to face-to-face consultation. By using AI to scan big data questionnaire responses, wait time for seriously ill patients can be substantially cut, and prognoses substantially improved.
- Assessing obsessive-compulsive symptoms in a subclinical and clinical sample: the development of the Hungarian version of the OCI-Rby Flora Fulop on October 3, 2024
CONCLUSION: The results highlight the advantages of symptom severity scales, such as the OCI-R, in the diagnostic process of obsessive-compulsive disorder. (Neuropsychopharmacol Hung 2024; 26(3): 144-152)
- Universal personality dimensions and dysfunctional obsessional beliefs in the DSM-5's OCD and related disorders (OCRDs)by Diana M Lisi on October 1, 2024
This study aimed to determine the extent to which personality and cognitive factors contribute to the identification of shared associations between the DSM-5's OCD and Related Disorders (OCRDs). Participants (n = 239) were treatment-seeking outpatients with a principal diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), hoarding disorder (HD), trichotillomania (TTM), or excoriation disorder (EXC), as compared to healthy community controls (n = 100). Analyses...