HABIT DISORDERS

Treating Habit Disorders

Epidemic Free-Base Cocaine Abuse; James F. Jekel, the Lancet, Mar. 1986, pp. 459-462, vol. 1. Cocaine and Other Stimulants; Frank H. Gawin, M.D., vol. 318, No. 18, pp. 1173-1182, New England Journal of Medicine, 1988. Evolving Conceptualizations of Cocaine Dependence; Frank H. Gawin, the Yale Journal of Biology and Medi cine Inc., pp. 123-136, 1988. Abstinence Symptomatology and Psychiatric Dia...

Habit Learning and Psychiatric Disorders

Last month in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Ron Kessler and his colleagues published some of the findings from the recent National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) study concerning the epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder. The NCS-R is a nationally representative study of 9,090 people aged 18 and older. The results of this article were picked up by all of the major...

The efficacy of habit reversal therapy for tics, habit disorders, and stuttering: a meta-analytic review.

A meta-analysis based on 575 participants in 18 studies found Habit Reversal Therapy (HRT) to be an efficacious intervention for a wide variety of maladaptive repetitive behaviors, including stuttering, tics, nail biting, temporomandibular disorder, thumb sucking, and mixed repetitive oral-digital habits. Compared to control conditions, HRT showed a large effect size pre-treatment to final post...

Crystal Habit Modification Using Habit Modifiers

Habit formation

Habits, both good ones and bad ones, are pervasive in animal behavior. Important frameworks have been developed to understand habits through psychological and neurobiological studies. This work has given us a rich understanding of brain networks that promote habits, and has also helped us to understand what constitutes a habitual behavior as opposed to a behavior that is more flexible and prosp...