A recent study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology has offered encouraging preliminary findings for individuals with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder who have not responded to standard ...

Decoding Musical Taste Of the myriad topics I get to consider in my obsessive research into the alchemy of our musical taste, the most fascinating is also the most rewarding: how our love of music can ...

One chronically overstimulated guy headed to a silent meditation retreat to spend ten days tuning into his psyche. That’s when the real noise began.

While discussions often misattribute mass violence to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a more forensic psychiatry perspective ...

Australian artist Rachel Burke suffered personal trauma that left her grieving and, at times, bedridden. She discovered a ...

Donald Trump mocked pop star Taylor Swift after the singer was booed Sunday at the Super Bowl during the Kansas City Chiefs defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles."The only one that had a tougher night ...

Your body produces it when your skin is in the sun or when you eat vitamin-D-rich foods. It can be hard to notice a vitamin D deficiency because it sometimes yields no symptoms. One study found ...

Background: The treatment of choice for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is exposure and response prevention (EX/RP). Previous studies have demonstrated that treatment adherence predicts treatment ...

Low levels of serotonin precipitate what Schwartz described as the “intrusive, maddeningly preoccupying thoughts, hopes, terrors of early love”—the obsessive-compulsive behaviors associated with ...

Body composition refers to the distribution of fat, muscle, bone, and other tissues that make up your body. It is often expressed as the percentage of total body weight that consists of fat and/or ...

The overall average body fat percentage in the United States is about 39.9% for women and 28.1% for men, so below these amounts would technically be “below average.” However, most people in the United ...

The body contains all the internal organs, body parts, bones and muscles that make up the human anatomy. Your fleshy body has evolved over millions of years, and this is the science changing the way ...