Impaired decision-making traced to “salience network” — NIH-funded study
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2012. In patients with hoarding disorder, parts of a decision-making brain circuit under-activated when dealing with others’ possessions, but over-activated when deciding whether to keep or discard their own things, a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded study has found. NIMH is part of the National Institutes of Health.
Brain scans revealed the abnormal activation in areas of the anterior cingulate cortex and…
