The series turned a voyeuristic lens to people with unusual habits, but it did raise awareness of various compulsive ...

A long-held view is that compulsive behaviors involve individuals getting stuck in a "habit loop" that overrides self-control ...

It's no secret that teens love texting. Surveys show it has become their preferred form of communication, with adolescents sending and receiving an average of 167 texts per day. Most of the ...

Failures in cortical control of fronto-striatal neural circuits may underpin impulsive and compulsive acts. In this narrative review, we explore these behaviors from the perspective of neural ...

When a person exercises so much that it negatively affects their physical or mental health, or disrupts other aspects of their life, health experts call this compulsive exercise. Compulsive exercise ...

Our collective experience as clinicians shows that the need for tightly controlled irrelationships began to develop in early childhood in response to a perception of “environmental” threats to our ...

Compulsive behavior refers to the continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences. The compulsions are fuelled by the obsessions (e.g., intrusive thoughts of contaminations).

From a young age, Fletcher Wortmann spent countless hours absorbed by his obsessions. In third grade, he became consumed with the idea that every nonwater substance on the planet would soon freeze. He ...

What is obsessive compulsive disorder? OCD is a condition consisting of obsessions or compulsions, or, more commonly, both. This is nothing to do with addictions to gambling, alcohol, exercise or ...

Compulsive overeating and binge eating disorder both involve eating in excess. Doctors classify them differently based on the frequency and severity of symptoms. Binge eating may qualify as a mental ...

Sooner or later we learn that lying is "bad," and we shouldn't really do it. But if Jim Carey's "Liar Liar" taught us anything, it's that this just isn't feasible. We all have to lie sometimes. But ...

A Nimhans study links anxiety, stress to problematic pornography use in Indian adults, highlighting early exposure, ...