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

Managing impulses has always been challenging but now it is harder than perhaps ever before. Why? I'm still amazed that in the two years that I've been blogging for Psychology Today the post that ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday warned that compulsive or uncontrollable urges to gamble, binge eat, shop and have sex have been reported with the use of Otsuka’s antipsychotic ...

Do you ever feel like your mind hops from one thing to the next without warning? That pull to act on sudden ideas or speak before you’ve thought it through— that’s impulse control. Prefer to listen ...

The study of impulse control and stochastic differential games represents a vibrant intersection of applied mathematics and decision theory, where strategic agents operate in settings marked by ...

You know how fast things can spiral when your brain wants to go in a hundred directions at once, but work still expects focus. For neurodivergent women, the pressure to control every impulse while ...

New research from the University of British Columbia confirms for the first time that even mild brain injury can result in impulse control problems in rats. The study, published in the Journal of ...