A collaborative study involving Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Cambridge and the University of Exeter Medical School reveals a new gene associated with obesity and maladaptive behavior.

Tseng, Shih-Lun "Allen"; Sun, Heshan; Santhanam, Radhika; Lu, Shuya; Thatcher, Jason B. Rethinking Gamification Failure: A Model and Investigation of Gamified System ...

About 12 years ago, the movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" depicted the push-pull between accepting disappointing real-life experiences and conflating them into imaginary ones. And a 2017 YouTube ...

The fear of missing out (FoMO) on rewarding and fun experiences is something that most people feel at some point in life. Among college students, the degree to which someone experiences FoMO is ...

While everyone occasionally experiences “fear of missing out” (FoMO) on fulfilling and pleasurable events or happenings with their peers, researchers warn that the degree to which someone experiences ...

Whether or not avoidance is a maladaptive coping mechanism is something that psychiatrists and psychologists debate. In the view of some authors, avoidance is a maladaptive behavior because it can ...

The fear of missing out (FoMO) on rewarding and fun experiences is something that most people feel at some point in life. Among college students, the degree to which someone experiences FoMO is ...

Maladaptive daydreaming is a relatively new proposed mental health disorder that is not yet recognized in the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM-5) used by mental health ...

A collaborative study reveals a new gene associated with obesity and maladaptive behavior. The evidence shows that rare mutations in the gene for the serotonin 2C receptor play a role in the ...