In the first-ever Australian study of its kind, Burnet researchers have surveyed the correlation between adolescents’ pornography viewing habits and sexual behaviour. The study to be presented by Burnet’s Co-Head of Sexual Health Research, Dr Megan Lim, at the Australasian Sexual Health Conference in Sydney, found that young people who consume pornography from a young […]
Marc N. Potenza DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.09.004 Keywords – Gambling; Internet use; Video-gaming; Eating/Food; Sex; Shopping The term addiction holds significance for patients, clinicians, researchers, policy makers and many other groups of people. Thus, how the term addiction is used (and to whom it may apply) has been debated. The term “addiction” originated in Roman times and […]
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The issue of whether porn addiction is real has produced a storm of controversy. Yet all this noise may be distracting us from a graver risk to healthy sexuality: sexual conditioning of adolescents. READ MORE I monitor a number of popular online recovery forums. I have read self-reports of thousands of otherwise healthy young men […]
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Front Behav Neurosci. 2014; 8: 297. Published online Aug 29, 2014. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00297 PMCID: PMC4148937 Yafang Zhang,1 Elizabeth J. Crofton,1 Dingge Li,1 Mary Kay Lobo,2 Xiuzhen Fan,1 Eric J. Nestler,3 and Thomas A. Green1,* Abstract Environmental enrichment produces protective addiction and depression phenotypes in rats. ΔFosB is a transcription factor that regulates reward in the […]
Appetite. 2012 Feb;58(1):303-12. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2011.10.014. Dimitropoulos A1, Tkach J, Ho A, Kennedy J. Abstract The goal of this research is to identify the neural response to rewarding food cues before and after eating in overweight/obese (OB) and normal-weight (NW) adults. Based on the previous literature, we expected greater differential activation to food cues vs. objects […]
Young men are finding that addiction to hardcore videos is harming their physical ability to have real sex. Gary Wilson explains how science and online discussion groups are helping them to quit In 2007, something strange happened on the internet. I know, something strange is always happening on the internet. But this wasn’t a viral […]
Citation: Loh KK, Kanai R (2014) Higher Media Multi-Tasking Activity Is Associated with Smaller Gray-Matter Density in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex. PLoS ONE 9(9): e106698. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106698 Abstract Media multitasking, or the concurrent consumption of multiple media forms, is increasingly prevalent in today’s society and has been associated with negative psychosocial and cognitive impacts. Individuals who […]
Nutrients. 2014 Sep 16;6(9):3653-3671. Meule A1, Gearhardt AN2. FULL TEXT PDF Abstract The idea that specific kind of foods may have an addiction potential and that some forms of overeating may represent an addicted behavior has been discussed for decades. In recent years, the interest in food addiction is growing and research on this topic […]
Alcohol Alcohol. 2014 Sep;49 Suppl 1:i5-i6. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agu052.16. Skarupova K1, Olafsson K2. Abstract INTRODUCTION: The current debate on internet addiction is driven by question of whether it constitutes a distinct mental disorder. Our analysis of excessive internet use in adolescents offers an evidence for the line of research that distinguishes between addiction to the internet […]
Chong-Yaw Wee equal contributor, Zhimin Zhao equal contributor, Pew-Thian Yap, Guorong Wu, Feng Shi, True Price, Yasong Du, Jianrong Xu, Yan Zhou mail, Dinggang Shen mail Published: September 16, 2014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107306 Abstract Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is increasingly recognized as a mental health disorder, particularly among adolescents. The pathogenesis associated with IAD, however, remains […]