Rumination disorder, or rumination syndrome, is an eating disorder. It causes the repeated and unintentional regurgitation of food, usually during or just after eating. Experts still have much to ...

Rumination is a type of obsessive thinking that’s common across many types of OCD. If excessive rumination is starting to add stress to your life, therapy can help you learn to break the cycle. Have ...

The phrase “chew the cud” means to further chew partly digested food — but many of us use it to mean something rather more abstract. The scientific word for this is rumination: A process of breaking ...

Stuck in a mental loop of worries and problems that seem to have no end? Here’s what you can do. By Hannah Seo Perhaps you spend hours replaying a tense conversation you had with your boss over and ...

Rumination disorder is a feeding and eating disorder in which a person -- usually an infant or young child -- brings back up and re-chews partially digested food that has already been swallowed. In ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aytekin Tank is the founder and CEO of Jotform. You’ve probably heard of Pavlov’s classical conditioning experiment. Dr. Pavlov ...