Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research vol. 2 (2013), Article ID 235651, 11 pages Full-Text PDF doi:10.4303/jdar/235651 Eric J. Nestler Fishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1065, New York, NY 10029, USA Received 2 November 2012; Revised 10 November 2012; Accepted 20 […]
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Front Behav Neurosci. 2014 Mar 25;8:83. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00083. eCollection 2014. Li Y1, Sescousse G2, Dreher JC1. Author information Abstract Pathological gambling is a behavioral addiction characterized by a chronic failure to resist the urge to gamble. It shares many similarities with drug addiction. Glucocorticoid hormones including cortisol are thought to play a key role in […]
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J Behav Addict. 2014 Apr 1;3(1):33-40. Sussman S, Arpawong TE, Sun P, Tsai J, Rohrbach LA, Spruijt-Metz D. Author information Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Recent work has studied multiple addictions using a matrix measure, which taps multiple addictions through single responses for each type. METHODS: The present study investigated use of a matrix measure approach […]
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I provide 2 updated “Reality Checks” before we get to the 2014 critique. Reality check#1: Neurological & epidemiological studies that refute nearly every claim in Ley et al., 2014: Porn/sex addiction? This page lists over 50 neuroscience-based studies (MRI, fMRI, EEG, neuropsychological, hormonal). They provide strong support for the addiction model as their findings mirror […]
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Neuropsychopharmacology. Feb 2010; 35(3): 591–604. Published online Nov 25, 2009. doi: 10.1038/npp.2009.185 PMCID: PMC3055606 Naomi A Fineberg,1,2,3,* Marc N Potenza,4 Samuel R Chamberlain,1,3 Heather A Berlin,5 Lara Menzies,3 Antoine Bechara,6 Barbara J Sahakian,3 Trevor W Robbins,7 Edward T Bullmore,3,8 and Eric Hollander9 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article […]