But sometimes, the nervous ritual can belie a condition called dermatillomania, which is an unhealthy obsession with picking ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD) is a serious mental health disorder. Its name is often misused to describe people who like things super-clean or arranged just so. But when you actually have ...

Skin-picking disorder (dermatillomania or excoriation disorder) and autoimmune disorders often go together. With skin picking, you have a compulsive urge to pick, scratch, rub, pull, or scrape your ...

On Wednesday, Jasper Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:JSPR) reported preliminary data from the ongoing BEACON Phase 1b/2a study of subcutaneous briquilimab in adult participants with chronic spontaneous ...

Studies show that up to 14 percent of young men report problematic or compulsive porn use (Baker and Wenzel, 2020; Kumar and Anis, 2016; Weinstein and Lejoyeux, 2017). For women, the rate drops to ...

A study published in 2022 revealed a tenuous but plausible link between picking your nose and increasing the risk of developing dementia. In cases where picking at your nose damages internal tissues, ...

A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association found that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD ... include trichotillomania (hair pulling), body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), ...

And while it may be surprising to see very young people so interested in skin care and cosmetics, it’s not a bad age to start paying attention to these things — particularly skin care.