Brain hubs boil when hoarders face pitching their own stuff
A new study seems to support classifying hoarding disorder as a psychiatric illness. In patients with hoarding disorder, parts of a decision-making brain circuit under-activated when dealing with others’ possessions, but overactivated when deciding whether to keep or discard their own things, a National Institute of Mental Healthfunded study has found. Full Story
Check, recheck and check again
One of the most fascinating and rewarding experiences of our recently completed, and outstanding, Joint Commission review was accompanying the senior physician surveyor as he traced a cancer therapy medication, administered to an outpatient oncology patient at the North Naples Out-Patient Infusion Service. Full Story
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