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Hoarding in obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study.
Behaviour research and therapy - 1 Apr 2007
Samuels Jack F, Bienvenu O Joseph, Pinto Anthony, Fyer Abby J, McCracken James T, Rauch Scott L, Murphy Dennis L, Grados Marco A, Greenberg Benjamin D, Knowles James A, Piacentini John, Cannistraro Paul A, Cullen Bernadette, Riddle Mark A, Rasmussen Steven A, Pauls David L, Willour Virginia L, Shugart Yin Y, Liang Kung-yee, Hoehn-Saric Rudolf, Nestadt Gerald
Abstract excerpt
Hoarding behavior occurs frequently in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Results from previous studies suggest that individuals with OCD who have hoarding symptoms are clinically different than non-hoarders and may represent a distinct clinical group. In the present study, we compared 235 hoarding to 389 non-hoarding participants, all of whom had OCD, collected in the course of the OCD Collaborative Genetics...
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