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Catherine R Ayers

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Zakrzewski J, Doran N, Mayes T, Twamley E, Ayers C
Psychiatry Res . 2024 Apr; 336:115888. PMID: 38608540
Hoarding Disorder (HD) is a prominent and disabling neuropsychiatric condition defined by the inability to discard objects resulting in impairing levels of clutter. The prevalence rate is 2-6 % and...
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Mayes T, Dozier M, Davidson E, Rosenfarb I, Bratiotis C, Ayers C
J Clin Psychol . 2024 Jan; 80(3):610-624. PMID: 38215456
Objective: Families of individuals with hoarding symptoms report substantial burden; however, there has been no investigation of potential positive experiences. The objective of this study was to examine the experiences...
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Groessl E, Hafey C, McCarthy A, Hernandez R, Prado-Nava M, Casteel D, et al.
Glob Adv Integr Med Health . 2023 Dec; 12:27536130231220623. PMID: 38152342
Background: Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to report chronic pain than veterans without PTSD. Yoga has been shown to reduce both chronic pain and PTSD symptoms...
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Davidson E, Taylor C, Ayers C, Quach N, Tu X, Lee E
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry . 2021 Dec; 30(6):678-685. PMID: 34887211
Objective: To establish whether positive affect (PA) is uniquely associated with loneliness and other social functioning variables beyond negative affect (NA) among older adults. Methods: Four hundred and twenty-eight participants...
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Dozier M, Speed K, Davidson E, Bolstad C, Nadorff M, Ayers C
Int J Aging Hum Dev . 2020 Nov; 93(4):931-942. PMID: 33242247
Sleep problems are associated with many different forms of psychopathology in late life; however, there is currently a gap in the literature on the association between sleep quality and hoarding...
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Dozier M, Ayers C
Curr Opin Psychol . 2020 Sep; 39:105-108. PMID: 32971323
Extreme object attachment in adults can form as a way to compensate for a lack of interpersonal attachment or as a symptom of hoarding disorder; however, normative levels of object...
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Dozier M, Davidson E, Pittman J, Ayers C
J Affect Disord . 2020 Jul; 276:191-196. PMID: 32697698
Background: Prior research has demonstrated a link between compulsive hoarding symptoms and personality traits; however, no studies have investigated the link between hoarding and personality traits utilizing a sample of...
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Dozier M, Ayers C
J Obsessive Compuls Relat Disord . 2020 Jul; 3(3):220-227. PMID: 32670784
Few studies to date have studied the particular reasons endorsed by individuals with hoarding disorder (HD) for why they save or acquire certain objects. Understanding how reasons for saving and...
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Ayers C, Pittman J, Davidson E, Dozier M, Mayes T, Almklov E
J Obsessive Compuls Relat Disord . 2020 Jul; 23. PMID: 32670783
While a number of hoarding disorder-specific therapeutic interventions have been developed over recent years, hoarding disorder (HD) remains difficult to treat. The purpose of this investigation is to inform HD...
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Castriotta N, Dozier M, Taylor C, Mayes T, Ayers C
J Obsessive Compuls Relat Disord . 2020 Jul; 21:97-101. PMID: 32670782
Background: Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) has been proposed as a transdiagnostic risk and maintenance factor underlying various forms of psychopathology. Few studies, however, have examined IU in hoarding disorder (HD)-a...