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Compulsive sexual behavior among male military veterans: Prevalence and associated clinical factors (to website)   PDF (FULL STUDY) Category Full-Length Report DOI 10.1556/JBA.3.2014.4.2 Authors Philip H. Smith, Marc N. Potenza, Carolyn M. Mazure, Sherry A. McKee, Crystal L. Park and Rani A. Hoff   References Bancroft, J. & Vukadinovic, Z. (2004). Sexual addiction, sexual compulsivity, […]

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Paul J. Wright Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications 01/2012; 24(2):67-76. DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000063 ABSTRACT Several studies have explored whether pornography exposure is associated with a casual approach to sex. Much of this research, however, has been cross-sectional, has assessed only straightforward exposure–casual sex associations, and has employed convenience samples of adolescents. This study employed […]

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doi: 10.1177/019251388009004006 Journal of Family Issues December 1988, vol. 9 no. 4 518-544 DOLF ZILLMANN Indiana University JENNINGS BRYANT University of Alabama Abstract Male and female students and nonstudents were exposed to videotapes featuring common, nonviolent pornography or innocuous content. Exposure was in hourly sessions in six consecutive weeks. In the seventh week, subjects participated […]

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Everything I ever worried about… slipping away forever. This is what it’s all about. Quitting pointed me more to my other major insecurity. Turns out mine was dental. I have a few gaps and I think they make me look goofy and disgusting. The thought creates awkwardness, and I withdraw, into depression, fixation or excess. […]

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Front Neuroendocrinol. Author manuscript; available in PMC Jan 1, 2012. Published in final edited form as: Front Neuroendocrinol. Jan 2011; 32(1): 53–69. Published online Aug 3, 2010. doi:  10.1016/j.yfrne.2010.07.006 PMCID: PMC3012750 NIHMSID: NIHMS227401 Kimberly A. Young, Kyle L. Gobrogge, Yan Liu, and Zuoxin Wang* Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final […]

Read More… from The neurobiology of pair bonding: insights from a socially monogamous rodent (2011)

J Neurosci. Author manuscript; available in PMC Oct 27, 2009. Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci. Feb 4, 2009; 29(5): 1312–1318. doi:  10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5039-08.2009 PMCID: PMC2768419 NIHMSID: NIHMS93410 Heather E. Ross,1 Sara M. Freeman,1 Lauren L. Spiegel,1 Xianghui Ren,2 Ernest F. Terwilliger,2 and Larry J. Young1,3 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► […]

Read More… from Variation in Oxytocin Receptor Density in the Nucleus Accumbens has Differential Effects on Affiliative Behaviors in Monogamous and Polygamous Voles (2009)

Neurosci Biobehav Rev. Author manuscript; available in PMC Feb 21, 2013. Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. Jan 2011; 35(3): 498–515. Published online Jun 23, 2010. doi:  10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.06.004 PMCID: PMC3578706 NIHMSID: NIHMS216938 Kimberly A. Young,* Kyle L. Gobrogge, and Zuoxin Wang Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final […]

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J Neurosci. Author manuscript; available in PMC Dec 1, 2011. Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci. Jun 1, 2011; 31(22): 7960–7966. doi:  10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1006-11.2011 PMCID: PMC3114880 NIHMSID: NIHMS300918 Yan Liu,1,2 Kimberly A Young,1,2 J Thomas Curtis,3 Brandon J Aragona,4 and Zuoxin Wang2,5 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited […]

Read More… from Social bonding decreases the rewarding properties of amphetamine through a dopamine D1 receptor mediated mechanism (2011)

NOTE – contains several graphs. J Neurosci. 1999 Jan 1;19(1):456-63. Fiorino DF1, Phillips AG. FULL TEXT – PDF Abstract Behavioral sensitization caused by repeated and intermittent administration of psychostimulants, such as cocaine and D-amphetamine, is accompanied by enhanced function in limbic-motor circuitry that is involved in the generation of motivated behavior. The present microdialysis study […]

Read More… from Facilitation of sexual behavior and enhanced dopamine efflux in the nucleus accumbens of male rats after D-amphetamine-induced behavioral sensitization (1999)

COMMENTS:  Review going through science of how both sensitization and desensitization coexist in an addicted individual. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. Author manuscript; available in PMC Nov 1, 2014. Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. Nov 2013; 37(0): 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.01.018. Published online Jan 16, 2013. doi:  10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.01.018 PMCID: PMC3743927 NIHMSID: NIHMS436830 Marco Leytona,** and Paul […]

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