Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects some 1-3 percent of the human population and for some can be severely debilitating. It would be highly surprising, according to the tenets of “one medicine, ...

The small red dot that dogs eagerly chase seems like the perfect indoor game—quick, simple, and somewhat amusing. But what many owners don’t realize: The laser pointer game can lead to significant ...

For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the opposite: inflammation in a key decision-making brain region actually made ...

I have a deaf, wonderful Aussie mix, about 7 months old. He has one eye that works. I can see he is beginning to show some OCD-like behaviors, as in he is obsessed with shadows and would chase them ...