An estimated 77% of Americans are engaging in addictive behaviors to cope with mental health issues — often in spite of efforts to find effective clinical therapies. The GeneSight Mental Health ...

Drawing from research on addiction in neuroscience, psychology, and clinical practice, the following list identifies several key behavioral patterns associated with addiction: Source: ...

Are you at risk for addictive behaviors? Some people are genetically predisposed to addictive behavior. It is common for people who have addictive behaviors to be depressed. Often people who have ...

Discover 25 insane addictions you won't believe are real, from eating ashes to tanning. Explore the bizarre world of ...

Adolescents with an internet addiction undergo changes in the brain that could lead to additional addictive behaviour and tendencies, finds a new study by UCL researchers. The findings, published in ...

How do they keep us addicted? They rely on dopamine—the “reward hormone.” Like Pavlov’s dogs, we anticipate a reward when we hear something associated with it, like a notification sound, and respond ...

Aversion therapy (AT) is a behavioral therapy that involves repeatedly pairing an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant experience with the goal of discouraging the undesirable behavior. Other names ...

With Australia's outright ban on social media use for adolescents and the first U.S. court ruling that social media has ...

Empower your team members to remain energized and steady on the job. A fellow CEO told me recently he had some young team members who stopped performing at work. They didn’t meet their numbers, quit ...