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Brain hubs boil when hoarders face pitching their own stuff

August 10, 2012 by

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.

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