Impulse control disorders (ICDs) are a class of psychiatric disorders characterized by difficulties controlling aggressive or antisocial impulses. Because they can involve physical violence ...

Over the past ten years, Dr Potenza's research efforts have focused on pathological gambling and other impulse control disorders and their relationships with other psychiatric disorders ...

This disordered eating behavior is usually an effort to solve a variety of emotional difficulties in which the individual feels out of control. Anyone can develop an eating disorder—males and ...

Although the causes are many and varied, we know that people with eating disorders often use food and the control of food in an attempt to compensate for feelings and emotions that may otherwise ...

Which is what inspired me to conduct my own research… “Trichotillomania is part of a set of body-focused repetitive disorders (BFRD), the umbrella term for impulse-control behaviours that ...

Food, nutrition, health and wellness are all bound up together inextricably. But for people who have eating disorders, the simple act of eating a healthy, satisfying meal can become an ...