COMMENTS: This study demonstrates sensitization in lean adolescents at risk for obesity (parents are obese). Sensitization means that their reward circuitry releases more dopamine when exposed to food cues than their “normal” counterparts.
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It may not make you go blind, but Italian scientists have identified a worrying side-effect of watching too much pornography.
Researchers said Thursday that young men who indulge in “excessive consumption” of Internet porn gradually become immune to explicit images, the ANSA news agency reported.
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Cortisol Secretion Patterns In Addiction And Addiction Risk
William R. Lovallo*
Int J Psychophysiol. 2006 March; 59(3): 195–202.
William R. Lovallo, Behavioral Sciences Laboratories (151A), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 921 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73104, United States;
* Tel.: +1 405 270 0501×3124; fax: +1 405 290 1839. E-mail address: [email protected]
Abstract
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Getting help for issues related to excessive porn use is a fine idea. However, many therapists have no conception of how addictive today’s hyperstimulating Internet porn is. Many were trained when static, softcore Playboy was porn, and before the recent brain science that is helping to explain the close parallels between extremely stimulating substances and […]
COMMENTS: Basic premise is that addictions hijacks the pair bonding mechanisms shared by the reward circuitry. Porn addiction therefore likely affects the pair-bonding mechanisms in our brains.
Amphetamine Reward In The Monogamous Prairie Vole
Neurosci Lett. 2007 May 17; 418(2): 190–194.
Published online 2007 March 14. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.03.019.
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COMMENT: Stress can increase vulnerability to addiction. 
Chronic Stress, Drug Use, and Vulnerability to Addiction
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Morality lies not where we think it does This post is about morality, but not about a particular moral agenda. It’s about how your inner compass works. Whatever your moral code, if you or your loved ones occasionally do things that violate it, read on. Moral decisions (including sexual ones) do not invoke a specific […]
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Comments: Study states the obvious – computer game addiction exists (about 12% of users). 
Excessive computer game playing evidence for addiction and aggression?
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