Getting a headache and feeling sick are common side-effects for many medicines. Indulging in risky sexual behavior or ...

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 ...

Dopamine-receptor agonists, used to treat Parkinson's disease and restless legs syndrome, have been linked to impulse-control disorders like hypersexuality and compulsive gambling. Studies highlight ...

who called it “an immoral defect of moral control in children.” It wasn’t until 1968 that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) formally recognized hyperkinetic impulse disorder as a ...

Suggested treatment to correct the loss of impulse control is a gradual reduction ... has considered video game addiction a mental health disorder since 2013. Though numerous studies have been ...