Front. Behav. Neurosci., 25 August 2014 | doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00288 Zhenhe Zhou*, Hongmei Zhu, Cui Li and Jun Wang Department of Psychiatry, Wuxi Mental Health Center, Wuxi, China ABSTRACT Internet addiction disorder (IAD) should belong to a kind of behavioral addiction. Previous studies indicated that there are many similarities in the neurobiology of behavior and substance […]
It wasn’t that long ago that the world’s eager young wankers could happily jerk themselves into a state of exhaustion without a care in the world. But for some time now there’s been a growing level of consciousness of something that should probably have been quite obvious to anyone whose blood hadn’t all been redirected […]
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Comments: This is the second Cambridge University study on internet porn addicts (“CSB” in the study). This study assessed cue-reactivity through attentional bias. Unlike this 2013 EEG study in which the subjects were male, female and non-heterosexuals, and were not screened for mental conditions or other addictions, this study meticulously followed established neuroscience protocols. The […]
Recently, there has been some buzz regarding the role of religion with regard to porn addiction. One study http://www.provenmen.org/2014pornsurvey/pornography-use-and-addiction/#addiction showed that men claiming to be Christian were twice as likely as non-Christians to think that they might be addicted to porn. Some commentators are quick to conclude that this is proof that porn addiction is a construct […]
Comments: The following (roughly) translated articles contain quotes and describe studies (in press) by Italian urology professor, President of the Italian Society of Reproductive Pathophysiology, and author of some 300 academic papers, Carlo Foresta. See this page for descriptions of the studies and his 90 page PDF of the lecture where he presented his results. […]
tl;dr – PMO almost destroyed my life…. discovered NoFap… drastically changed things… got happier :D… NoFap challenge works I swear. 100 days baby! Hi non-fapping community I reached a 3 month milestone with the help of all your inspirational posts on this sub. It was a privilege to read ya’ll stories and it seems like […]
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Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2014 Jul;43(7):378-82. Ong SH1, Tan YR. Abstract In our technology-savvy population, mental health professionals are seeing an increasing trend of excessive Internet use or Internet addiction. Researchers in China, Taiwan and Korea have done extensive research in the field of Internet addiction. Screening instruments are available to identify the presence of […]
Front Psychol. 2013 Sep 10;4:609. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00609. eCollection 2013. Kira Bailey,1,* Robert West,2 and Judson Kuffel3 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Recent work has revealed a relationship between pathological video game use and increased impulsivity among children and adolescents. A few studies have also demonstrated increased […]
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An early fixation with pornography can damage teenagers’ lives for years to come, experts say Teenagers were ogling breasts long before the internet was created. But there are now so many images to be gawped at – many of them much more accessible than ever before – that graphic pornography is becoming a normal part […]
David Van Nuys, Ph.D. interviews Gary about internet porn, its effects on adolescents, neuroplasticity, “Don Jon” and more. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | New transcript Visit “Shrink Rap Radio” for more programs. […]