From: Los Angeles Times
Baltimore scientists search for cause, treatment for hoarding
June 9, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
The table in Jack Samuels’ Fells Point office is piled two feet high with books, papers, scientific journals and grant applications.
Samuels’ wife likes to tease him that he has a hoarding problem, just like the people he studies. In reality, those stacks of paper might hold a remedy.
Samuels, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine, is the go-to guy nationwide for researchers seeking to understand the biological basis of hoarding — an intense, irrational drive to collect items in vast quantities, coupled with an inability to discard even objects that are worthless or broken.
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