David F. Tolin studied decision making in hoarding. His experiment compared keep-or-discard decisions involving personally owned and control items while measuring neural activity. Ownership-dependent responses help distinguish difficulty discarding one’s own possessions from a general inability to make any decision. [ref]
Neural mechanisms of decision making in hoarding disorder by David F. Tolin and others. 2012, owned versus control-item decisions and neuroimaging
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