Intro I decided to try this out after stumbling upon this when googling what the effects of frequent porn/masturbation were. I have watched and masturbated to porn usually every day since I was 13, and I am 28 now. I have gone one month without both in the past, but it was not to reset […]
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J Addict Med. 2009 March; 3(1): 8–18.
doi: 10.1097/ADM.0b013e31819a86f7
Gene-Jack Wang, MD, Nora D. Volkow, MD, Panayotis K. Thanos, PhD, and Joanna S. Fowler, PhD
FULL STUDY: Imaging of Brain Dopamine Pathways: Implications for Understanding Obesity
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Rev Med Brux. 2009 Sep;30(4):335-57. [Article in French]
Semaille P.
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D.M.G.-U.L.B. [email protected]
Addiction is characterized by the inability to control his consumption of product or control certain behaviors, and the continuation of the behavior despite knowledge of its adverse effects.
Addictions to substances like heroin, cocaine, etc., are well known. But other substances potentially addictive are getting more common in Belgium: MDMA, GHB / GBL, Cristal, etc.
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Am J Addict. 2009 Nov-Dec;18(6):439-51.
Danielle Barry, Ph.D., Megan Clarke, Ed.M., and Nancy M. Petry, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut
Address correspondence to Dr. Barry, Calhoun Cardiovascular Center-Behavioral Health (MC 3944), University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030-3944, Phone: 860-679-6664, Fax: 860-679-1312, Email: [email protected]
Comments: fMRI scans find abnormalities in the brains of those with Internet Addiction Disorder.
Chin Med J (Engl). 2010 Jul;123(14):1904-8.
Liu J, Gao XP, Osunde I, Li X, Zhou SK, Zheng HR, Li LJ.
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COMMENTS: The sweeping new ASAM “definition of addiction” (August 2011) ends the debate over the existence behavioral addictions, including sex and porn addiction. This new definition of addiction, which includes behavioral addictions, such as food, gambling and sex, ASAM unequivocally states behavioral addictions involve similar brain alterations and neural pathways as do drug addictions. We […]
Comments: A review by one of the top researchers stating that natural rewards and addiction overlap.
Full Study: The Neuroscience of Natural Rewards Relevance to Addictive Drugs
The Journal of Neuroscience, 1 May 2002, 22(9): 3306-3311; Ann E. Kelley1 and Kent C. Berridge2
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1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin 53719, and
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Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Feb;1187:294-315.
Frascella J, Potenza MN, Brown LL, Childress AR.
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Division of Clinical Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
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UPDATES: Many studies have been published since this article was written. See this List of Internet & Video Game Brain Studies. Gaming disorder is defined in the draft 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) The world’s most widely used medical diagnostic manual, The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), contains a new diagnosis […]
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Ashley N. Gearhardt, Carlos M. Grilo, Ralph J. DiLeone, Kelly D. Brownell, Marc N. Potenza
Article first published online: 14 FEB 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03301.x
© 2011 The Authors, Addiction © 2011 Society for the Study of Addiction
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