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 […]
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 […]