The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified compulsive sexual behaviour as a mental health disorder for the first time. The WHO’s International Classification of Diseases list (also called the ...

A little-known and poorly understood sleep disorder that occurs during the rapid eye movement, or REM, stage of sleep has been garnering attention for its role in foreshadowing neurodegenerative brain ...

Written by Patricia Lockwood, Ph.D., and Ruth Pauli, Ph.D., with edits from Jo Cutler, Ph.D. Antisocial behaviours include rule-breaking or criminal behaviour, lying, stealing, destruction of property ...

A common mental health disorder associated with disruptive behaviours such as fighting, bullying and rule-breaking in children could be spotted in brain scans, a study suggests. Scientists have found ...

New York: Mount Sinai researchers claim to have discovered a novel therapy for rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder. This disorder affects approximately 3 million Americans, usually, ...

PARIS, Oct 29: Two French scientists say they’ve come, quite accidentally, with a solution to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) that involves implanting electrodes destined originally to control ...

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