Category: Research

Family Members Needed for Research

Title of Study: Reactions to Hoarding Principal Investigators: Martin M. Antony, PhD, CPsych, & Valerie Vorstenbosch, MA =Do you or your loved one have difficulty throwing things away?= Edited to add: This study requires the participation of Hoarder to qualify-COH Inc. -Researchers in the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University are seeking individuals and their …

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Scientists search for biological cause, treatment

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Dr. Suzanne Chabaud Sets the Stage for Children of Hoarders Research

Dr. Suzanne Chabaud Sets the Stage for Children of Hoarders Research ›From the time that the ChildrenOfHoarders.com website was launched in 2006, adult children of hoarders have been sharing experiences and developing ideas about how growing up in a hoarding environment can affect a child and how those effects can echo into adulthood. While it …

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The Hidden Lives of Children of Hoarders

Psychiatric Times COMMENTARY The Hidden Lives of Children of Hoarders By Suzanne A. Chabaud, PhD | November 10, 2011 Dr Chabaud merged her dual doctorate in developmental and clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University to treat hundreds of clients of all ages. She founded the OCD Institute of Greater New Orleans, where she and her staff …

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Hoarding Dissertation

Hi everyone, I’m Susan Gunther and a Ph.D student with Capella University. I am preparing to do my dissertation on the experiences of individuals who live with a hoarder.  I’m in the NYC area and my email is susangunther@optonline.net if anyone knows of any leads. Any information will be greatly appreciated.  – Susan Gunther  

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Survey Participant Request from Dr. Chabaud

NOTE: The survey described below has been closed. Raised in a hoarded home? Participate in valuable & groundbreaking research! Phase II of research of Adults Raised in Hoarded Homes by  Dr. Suzanne Chabaud, of the OCD Institute of Greater New Orleans. From Dr. Suzanne Chabaud: Thank you for participating in my research on Adult-Children of …

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Two researchers are studying patients and their families to help cut down on compulsive clutter

…he’s interested whether, like hoarders, the relatives also exhibit a malfunction of their so-called “executive functions” — the cognitive and regulatory processes carried out in the brain’s anterior cingulate cortex.

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Second Phase of COH Research Project (closed)

From: OCDIGNO– RE: Children of Hoarders Research Project- Dr Suzanne Chabaud’s research team continues to conduct interviews with our Children of Hoarders group. She and her team are grateful for all that you have done and continue to do. Her team will eventually interview everyone who volunteered and returned the initial survey, informed consent and …

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New:Hoarding Treatment Guide Published

School of Social Work researchers publish hoarding treatment guide-The guide includes case studies, tips and strategies and suggestions for appropriate interventions. Organized around the ways hoarding captures the attention of service providers, the handbook provides tools to help professionals assess the problem, coordinate and delegate tasks, and work directly with reluctant hoarders and others affected …

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NPR: American Society on Aging Conference

Massive Clean Up Is No Cure For Hoarding

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Journal of Clinical Psychology Special Issue: Hoarding Disorder

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Recruiting Study: Treatment of Late Life Hoarding

Official Title: “Treatment of Late Life Compulsive Hoarding” Study Primary Completion Date: October 2015 -The purpose of this investigation is to examine treatment outcome of a new intervention for hoarding in older adults compared to standard case management for hoarding. The new intervention combines exposure therapy and cognitive remediation. Detailed Clinical Trial Description Research has shown that …

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Australian Center Readies Brain Research Program

=Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology acquires Elekta Neuromag TRIUX magnetoencephalography (MEG) system to study brain in action= =/PRNewswire/ — Certain brain processes happen in the blink of an eye – and even faster – which has made pinpointing these events virtually impossible. The advent of magnetoencephalography (MEG) changed all that, enabling researchers to capture brain …

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The loss connection, by Mark A. Chidley

My opinion is that the roles of unresolved loss in general and traumatic loss in particular need further inspection in connection with hoarding. The mismanagement of a single major loss or clustered losses along life’s way could represent a turning point that makes either object hoarding or animal hoarding go active. This is not to …

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UCSD Hoarding Study-12 wks: free meds/scans/evals.

Study Conducted by Sanjaya Saxena, M.D. UCSD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Program Department of Psychiatry UCSD School of Medicine View official flyer from UCSD Initial Approval: 08/05/2010-Current Approval: 08/05/2010 Project #: #101184     ***   Research Study Are you a Packrat? Hoarder? Clutterer?  The UCSD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) Program is looking for people with problems with …

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