COMMENTS: A great overview of behavioral addictions. The theme is that substance and behavioral addictions share the same underlying neurological pathways, mechanisms, and behaviors.
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Read More… from Introduction to Behavioral Addictions (2010)
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0100 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 12 October 2008 vol. 363 no. 1507 3181-3189, Marc N Potenza
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Comments: teens tend be impulsive as we all know. One reason is that they get a bigger blast of dopamine for novel stimuli, and have a less developed “consequences” portion of the brain. Addicts have both of these attributes – only more pronounced, along with a numbed pleasure response.
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Read More… from (L) Teen Risk Taking Linked to Hypersensitivity to Reward Signal (2010)
Comments: Naltrexone is an opioid receptor antagonist used primarily in the management of alcohol dependence and opioid dependence. The article has excellent explanations of the addictive process and behavioral addictions. by Michael Bostwick, MD and Jeffrey A. Bucci, MD doi: 10.4065/83.2.226 Mayo Clinic Proceedings, February 2008 vol. 83 no. 2 226-230 View online Article Outline […]
Read More… from Internet Sex Addiction Treated With Naltrexone (2008)
Comment: Study demonstrates in humans that food – a natural reinforcer – can cause a decline in dopamine receptors. Is Internet porn less stimulating than “highly palatable” food? 
Released: 9/29/2010 4:30 PM EDT
Source: University of Texas at Austin
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Food Addiction: Could It Explain Why 70 Percent of Americans Are Fat?
Mark Hyman MD, October 16, 2010
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Read More… from (L) Food Addiction: Could It Explain Why 70 Percent of Americans Are Fat? (2010)
Comment: This study demonstrates that when an animal is given unlimited access, a strong natural reinforcer (very stimulating food) can cause a decline in D2 receptors. This decline was seen in nearly all rats, and occurred quite rapidly. When “highly palatable” food was removed, the rats refused to eat normal chow. The rats continued to […]
Comments: One of the latest and best reviews of dopamine’s role in addiction. Volkow is one of the premiere experts in addiction, and the current head of NIDA. 
Volkow ND, Fowler JS, Wang GJ, Baler R, Telang F.
Neuropharmacology. 2009;56 Suppl 1:3-8.
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Read More… from Imaging Dopamine’s Role in Drug Abuse and Addiction (2009)
Not sure how to masturbate without porn? Ask anyone over 40! Remember: your ancestors didn’t have the internet. Therefore they didn’t fall into the trap of conditioning their sexual template to everything associated with their porn use, such voyeurism, multiple tabs, HD streaming hardcore, searching/seeking, endless novelty. It can also include porn-induced fetishes, strange acts, […]
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Dudley DanoB, MD, FACS
“Another factor that makes internet pornography especially “addictive” is its sheer ubiquity – why go out to a bar or club and hope that you actually succeed in picking up a cute guy when you can access a veritable stable of hot, underdressed men with just…
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