A common belief is that compulsive behaviors trap people in a “habit loop” that takes over self-control. New research, however, suggests this explanation may be incomplete. For many years, compulsive ...

Past age 50, men are much more likely to have REM sleep behavior disorder than women. Jose Luis Pelaez/Stone via Getty Images Every night, you go through four to five sleep cycles. Each cycle, lasting ...

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 ...

It accepted in most quarters that fibromyalgia is associated with reduced rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep and increased non-REM sleep. One of the goals of those who treat fibromyalgia is to try to ...

NYU Langone’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers Dialectal Behavior Therapy- Adolescent (DBT-A) Program ...

Dissociation is a common symptom in borderline personality disorder and is associated with an increased risk of suicidality ...

Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state ...