emphasizes that compulsive gambling is a medical disorder; the brains of pathological gamblers actually look different under a microscope than those of nongamblers. But unlike other addictions ...

It wasn't until 1980 that pathological gambling was identified as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. At the time, roughly 1.1 million Americans engaged in problematic or ...

Experts are warning of one more potential side effect to popular weight loss drugs: reckless behavior. According to two ...

Another movement disorder is restless legs syndrome ... These include risky sexual behavior (hypersexuality), pathological gambling, compulsive shopping, and binge eating. Hypersexuality ...