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 ...

Despite the benefits of CBT, many OCD cases do not achieve remission, and some patients see no improvement at all (Reid et al., 2021; Sharma et al., 2014). The principal method in CBT for OCD is ...

I believe group therapy is one of the best options for addiction recovery, even more so than individual therapy. While individual therapy has merit in helping a client deep dive into their own issues, ...

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 ...