A specific pattern of brain activity in a frontal brain region is linked to compulsive behaviors like excessive hand washing, chronic hair-pulling, and skin-picking in people with obsessive compulsive ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation, or "TMS," is an FDA-approved psychiatric treatment for major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), with intriguing clinical trials suggesting ...

Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one has stopped using. Previously, this phenomenon was attributed to a decline ...