Some plants that are dispersed by scatter-hoarding animals appear to have evolved the ability to manipulate the behaviour of those animals to increase the likelihood that seeds and nuts will be stored and that a portion of those items will not be recovered. Plants have achieved this in at least four ways. First, by producing large, nutritious seeds and nuts that are attractive to animals and th...

The present case report describes an intensive treatment approach combining aggressive pharmacotherapy with daily cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) directed at helping “Dee,” a 63-year-old female suffering from compulsive hoarding. The successful intervention consisted of individualized exposure and response prevention (ERP), in addition to cognitive restructuring to improve insight, decrease ...

BACKGROUND The growing interest in problematic hoarding as an independent clinical condition has led to the development of the Saving Inventory-Revised (SI-R) to assess hoarding phenomenology. The SI-R is one of the most widely used instruments to measure hoarding symptoms; however, it lacks validation in non-Western samples. METHODS The current study examined the construct, convergent, and d...

A food-hoarding squirrel reshapes its physical environment through storing food. These changes have ramifications for future economic decisions that cascade into social and reproductive consequences. Food-hoarding strategies exist on a continuum from concentrated caches in defended larder to scattered using memory olfaction. emerge response specific environments. Because are pilfered, the hoard...

365 ISSN 1758-2008 10.2217/NPY.12.47 © 2012 Future Medicine Ltd Neuropsychiatry (2012) 2(5), 365–367 Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA Department of Psychiatry, University of Florence, Via delle Gore 2H 50100, Florence, Italy Institute of Neuroscience, viale Ugo Bassi 1, 50137, Florence, Italy *Author for correspondence: Tel.: +39 0555 87889; Fax: +39 0...

Some plants that are dispersed by scatter-hoarding animals appear to have evolved the ability to manipulate the behaviour of those animals to increase the likelihood that seeds and nuts will be stored and that a portion of those items will not be recovered. Plants have achieved this in at least four ways. First, by producing large, nutritious seeds and nuts that are attractive to animals and th...