COMMENTS: New Cambridge University brain study. Subjects were carefully screened porn addicts. Compared with controls, they habituated faster to sexual images. That is, their brains became less activated seeing the same image…they were more quickly bored. Thus, the novelty of internet porn drives the addiction to it, creating a circular spiral of needing more novelty […]
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Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2015 Nov 20. Vandenbosch L1, van Oosten JM1, Peter J1. Abstract The goal of this study was to investigate whether exposure to sexual reality television content and Internet pornography (IP) is related to sexual self-presentation on social media. Based on a two-wave panel survey among 1,765 adolescents aged 13-17 years, we […]
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Comment: The American College of Pediatricians is speaking out about the harms of pornography use for young patients. ABSTRACT: The availability and use of pornography has become almost ubiquitous among adults and adolescents. Consumption of pornography is associated with many negative emotional, psychological, and physical health outcomes. These include increased rates of depression, anxiety, acting […]
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Addiction. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Jul 1. Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2014 Jul; 109(7): 1119–1127. doi: 10.1111/add.12537 PMCID: PMC4048632 NIHMSID: NIHMS575230 Giuseppe N. Giordano, PhD,1 Henrik Ohlsson, PhD,1 Kenneth S. Kendler, MD,2 Kristina Sundquist, MD, PhD,1,3 and Jan Sundquist, MD, PhD1,3 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Abstract […]
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Behav Neurosci. 2015 Jun; 129(3): 300–308. doi: 10.1037/bne0000059 PMCID: PMC4450884 Rebecca D. Burwell, Editor Nichola M. Brydges,1,2,* Megan C. Holmes,1 Anjanette P. Harris,1 Rudolf N. Cardinal,3,4,5 and Jeremy Hall6,7 1Centre for Cardiovascular Science, The University of Edinburgh 2Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University School of Medicine 3Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Department […]
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Published in Advance December 18, 2012, doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a011932 Copyright © 2013 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; all rights reserved Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren1,2 and Serge H. Ahmed3 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Animals in Science and Society, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands 2Rudolf Magnus Institute of […]
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Published online before print 2013, doi: 10.1530/EC-13-0028 Endocr Connect 2013 vol. 2 no. 3 R1-R14 Gavin P Vinson⇑ and Caroline H Brennan + Author Affiliations School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK Correspondence should be addressed to G P Vinson Email: [email protected] Next Section Abstract Substantial evidence […]
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Comments: This paper (abstract below) contains two longitudinal studies examining the effects of Internet porn on “delay discounting.” Delay discounting happens when people choose ten dollars right now rather than 20 dollars in a week. It’s the inability to delay immediate gratification for a more valuable reward in the future. Think of the famous Stanford […]
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Simultaneous use of multiple media impairs attention skill, study shows By Susan Gaidos October 19, 2015 ATTENTION DEFICIT Adolescents who routinely juggle multiple forms of technology at once may think they’re boosting their ability to focus on multiple tasks, but a new study says they’re not. CHICAGO — Teens like high-tech gadgets so much that […]
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