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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

In an age when fitness is synonymous with health, a paradox has emerged, whereby the pursuit of well-being through excess can become harmful.1 Exercise addiction (EA) represents a behavioural ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. It causes a person to have intrusive, distressing thoughts, which they manage using compulsive behaviors. For example, a person, who fixates ...