Compulsive behaviors around pornography use can deeply affect daily life. Learn to recognize the warning signs.

In A Nutshell Researchers searching over 10.7 million psychiatric patient records in Denmark found 38 cases where AI chatbot use appeared compatible with potential mental health harm, spanning ...

In a recent study published in Neuropsychopharmacology, researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) found that ...

New research suggests that compulsive behavior may be less about willpower failure and more about inflammation quietly disrupting the brain’s reward and habit circuits. While the idea of “hidden brain ...

European Union regulators said the app’s infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially among children. By Adam Satariano Reporting from London TikTok’s endless ...

Sanders is a novelist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. I was a tenured professor, a published novelist, and a married father of two sons when I lost everything — because of a drug I was prescribed ...

A type of cell usually characterized as the brain's support system appears to play an important role in obsessive-compulsive disorder-related behaviors, according to new UCLA Health research published ...

Opioid users with and without addiction demonstrated significantly greater learning from negative reinforcement. Individuals with chronic opioid use, whether addicted or not, show heightened learning ...

Individuals with chronic opioid use, whether addicted or not, show heightened learning from negative reinforcement, suggesting that avoidance behavior may underlie both the development and persistence ...

A 23-year-old White Plains man accused of hiding cameras in Marist University bathrooms in the spring of his senior year is being treated for compulsive sexual behavior, his lawyer told The Journal ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a brain circuit that can drive repetitive and compulsive behaviors in mice, even when natural rewards such as food or social contact are ...

Domestic horses sometimes engage in stereotyped behaviors (a repetitive movement that appears to have no purpose or function.) In horses, these behaviors may include cribbing, pawing, head shaking, ...