You know how fast things can spiral when your brain wants to go in a hundred directions at once, but work still expects focus ...

You’ve probably been told your whole life to just “try harder” when it comes to impulse control. For many neurodivergent ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Pyromania is an impulse control disorder that gives people an intense urge to deliberately start fires. This may be for pleasure, to relieve tension, or for sexual gratification. Sometimes, people ...