Exercise addiction: A narrative overview of research issues
Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2023 Jan 20;25(1):1-13. doi: 10.1080/19585969.2023.2164841. eCollection 2023.ABSTRACTThis narrative overview summarises the work on exercise addiction (EA) over the past 12 years and exposes critical conceptual and methodological issues. More than 1000 articles exist on EA, conceptualised as uncontrolled training harming the individual. Still, EA has no clinical diagnosis criteria at this time. Research is increasing continuously, but it is stale in advancing knowledge. Scalar measurement and lack of differentiation between addictive and instrumental exercise could be reasons for insufficient progr...
Source: Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience - January 26, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Aviv Weinstein Attila Szabo Source Type: research
