Baisy Joseph's List: CIP in the News

• Neuroimaging studies and case reports have revealed divergent patterns of brain activity and various cognitive peculiarities common to many hoarders: The very act of deciding what to keep and what to throw away causes them great anxiety, for instance, and they form unusually strong emotional attachments to inanimate objects.
• • Studies show that hoarding is connected to the mind and to emotions. 
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   Given that the average age of hoarders in published studies is 50, researchers were also surprised to learn that indications of compulsive hoarding sometimes appear early in life, between ages 11 and 15. The drive to collect is common in childhood. By age six, most children have begun a collection of some kind—coins, stamps, seashells, marbles, action figures—but these collections rarely become so unruly that they interfere with a family's daily activities. Some children, however, reveal a proclivity to hoarding in their emotions: They become furious or miserable when faced with losing
• • Hoarding can actually start from the childhood. Some child start to collect when they are young and it sticks with them through life after that because it stays in their mind since it is shaped when they are young. 
• • Connects to emotion because hoarding can start because of person distinctive emotions. 

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• Memory is not videotape. We may believe that we remember things precisely, but most of our memories are a combination of what we think we observed and information we have been exposed to since
• • The mind creates memory's by listening to things around and observing things. These memories created are fake and they cant be trusted. 
• Of the 297 cases that have been overturned by DNA evidence in the United States, more than 70 percent were based on eyewitness testimony. Those witnesses were not liars or jailhouse snitches but ordinary people utterly convinced that their memories were accurate.

  • More then half of the eyewitness reports are false and led to the wrong person being convicted. 

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