People usually don't think of exercise as a bad thing. After all, regular physical activity is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. But too much of it, as with anything, can be harmful.

She is running. Sweat is dripping down her face. Her eyes linger on the numbers lit up on the treadmill. Pain is shooting through her leg. She thinks that she might have strained or pulled something ...

Compulsive exercise (CE) gets little attention, despite being a fairly common and serious condition. There is no universally recognized definition of compulsive exercise, though it involves being ...

A growing number of seemingly fit and disciplined gymgoers are developing dangerous fixations on muscularity. Muscle dysmorphia, also known as vigorexia or the Adonis complex, is emerging as a ...

A long-held view is that compulsive behaviors involve individuals getting stuck in a "habit loop" that overrides self-control, but new research in rats from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) ...

The study reveals that inflammation in the brain is tightly bound to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), challenging the view that these obsessive behaviors are just habit loops gone wrong. While ...