Some kids fight every "demand." The "Big 5" and personality science may explain why—and what that means for treatment.

Jealousy is a normal human emotion defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "feeling or showing resentment towards a person one thinks of as a rival." Pathological jealousy, also known as ...

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) ...

For the first time, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Amsterdam UMC have identified what happens in neural networks deep within the brain during obsessive thoughts and ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric condition affecting around 1–3% of the general population 1,2. It is characterised by the presence of obsessions and/or compulsions and is often ...