UPDATE: June 11, 2015: A peer-reviewed critique of Prause & Pfaus 2015, by Richard A. Isenberg MD UPDATE: June, 2015: A critique of the Prause & Pfaus response to Richard Isenberg’s letter UPDATE: August 5, 2016: Peer-reviewed paper by US Navy doctors – Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports (2016) […]
Many adolescents watch hard-core pornography online long before having their first sexual experiences. This changes how they deal with their own sexuality. Here’s Daniel’s story. MUNICH — Fear is Daniel’s constant companion. The fear of relapse, of falling back into his old addictive habits is not unjustified because it would be all too easy. His […]
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Front Behav Neurosci. 2017; 11: 19. Published online 2017 Feb 14. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00019 PMCID: PMC5306218 Jean-Pascal Morin,1,2 Luis F. Rodríguez-Durán,1,3 Kioko Guzmán-Ramos,1 Claudia Perez-Cruz,4 Guillaume Ferreira,5,6 Sofia Diaz-Cintra,7 and Gustavo Pacheco-López1,8,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Neural plasticity is an intrinsic and essential characteristic of the […]
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Psychiatry Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 Feb 28. Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2016 Dec 30; 246: 230–235. Published online 2016 Sep 26. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.09.044 PMCID: PMC5330407 EMSID: EMS71673 EW Leppink,(1) SR Chamberlain,(2) SA Redden,(1) and JE Grant(1)* Abstract Objective A notable number of young adults struggle to control impulsive […]
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Behav Pharmacol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 Feb 25. Published in final edited form as: Behav Pharmacol. 2012 Sep; 23(0): 593–602. doi: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e328357697f PMCID: PMC3934429 NIHMSID: NIHMS554308 Attilio Iemolo,a,b,* Marta Valenza,a,b,c,* Lisa Tozier,b Clifford M. Knapp,b Conan Kornetsky,b Luca Steardo,d Valentina Sabino,a,b and Pietro Cottonea,b Abstract The increased availability of highly palatable foods is […]
Physiol Behav. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 Jul 25. Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2011 Jul 25; 104(1): 149–156. Published online 2011 May 8. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.04.063 PMCID: PMC3304465 NIHMSID: NIHMS297622 Sarah L Parylak,a,b,c George F Koob,a,c and Eric P Zorrillaa,b,c,1 Abstract In drug addiction, the transition from casual drug use to […]
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