What if we could resist compulsions? These irrational behaviors, particularly common in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), are hard to suppress. At Paris Brain Institute, Éric Burguière's team shows ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) causes people to have recurrent unwanted or unreasonable thoughts or sensations (obsessions) or make them feel driven to do something repeatedly (compulsions).

A new Northwestern Medicine study found evidence suggesting how neural dysfunction in a certain region of the brain can lead to obsessive and repetitive behaviors much like obsessive-compulsive ...

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 ...

The Mayo Clinic defines obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as: “Unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions).” OCD is a form of anxiety disorder ...

A long-held view is that compulsive behaviors involve individuals getting stuck in a "habit loop" that overrides self-control, but new research in rats from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) ...

Like so many things on social media, patients invented the term before medicine did. They called it “food noise.” They weren’t talking about ordinary hunger. They were describing something more ...

Trichotillomania is a condition involving frequent urges to pull out one’s hair. Experts now consider it closely related to OCD due to the obsessive-compulsive nature of the disorder. Mental health ...