For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the opposite: inflammation in a key decision-making brain region actually made ...

Is compulsive behavior common in people with Alzheimer’s or dementia? When someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, many aspects of his or her life are forced to change and will ...

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 ...

For the first time, compulsive sexual behavior -- commonly called sex addiction -- is classified as a mental health disorder on the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases ...

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), a leading cause of neurodevelopmental disorders, may affect as many as 1 in 20 school-aged children in the United States. Despite its prevalence, the exact ...

Kevin Spacey, the former star of House of Cards, took the witness stand at a California civil trial Tuesday and acknowledged he was formally diagnosed with “sexual compulsive behavior” in 2017 after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kevin Spacey, 2023. (Credit: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) Kevin Spacey testified in a long-running legal matter on Tuesday in ...

Out-of-control sexual behaviors have existed throughout history, yet their official recognition only came much later. Some of the old terms you might have heard include satyriasis, nymphomania, and ...

Kevin Spacey testified in a long-running legal matter on Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif. concerning the actor's removal from the sixth season of "House of Cards." At the trial, according to multiple ...