COMMENTS: An Italian study that analyzed the effects of Internet porn on high school students, co-authored by urology professor Carlo Foresta, president of the Italian Society of Reproductive Pathophysiology. The most interesting finding is that 16% of those who consume porn more than once a week report low sexual desire compared with 0% in non-consumers […]
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Public Health. 2015 Sep 3. pii: S0033-3506(15)00291-7. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.07.031. Lai CM1, Mak KK2, Watanabe H3, Jeong J4, Kim D5, Bahar N6, Ramos M7, Chen SH8, Cheng C9. Abstract OBJECTIVES: This study examines the associations of Internet addiction with social anxiety, depression, and psychosocial well-being among Asian adolescents. A self-medication model conceptualizing Internet addiction as a […]
Int J Clin Exp Med. 2015 Jun 15;8(6):9943-9948. Liu M1, Luo J1. Abstract OBJECTIVES: To explore the association between peripheral blood dopamine level and internet addiction disorder (IAD) in adolescents, this could be used to explain the neurobiological mechanism of Internet addiction disorder. METHODS: 33 adolescents with IAD diagnosed by Young’s Internet Addiction Test (IAT) […]
Citation: Translational Psychiatry (2015) 5, e624; doi:10.1038/tp.2015.106 Published online 25 August 2015 J-W Chun1, J Choi1, H Cho1, S-K Lee2 and D J Kim1 1Department of Psychiatry, Seoul St Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital, Chuncheon, Korea Correspondence: Professor DJ Kim, Department of Psychiatry, […]
Arch Sex Behav. 2015 Apr;44(3):743-54. doi: 10.1007/s10508-014-0443-7. Epub 2014 Dec 11. Baams L1, Overbeek G, Dubas JS, Doornwaard SM, Rommes E, van Aken MA. Abstract This study examined whether the development of sexualized media consumption and permissive sexual attitudes would be more strongly interrelated when adolescents perceived sexualized media images as highly realistic. We used […]
PLoS One. 2015 Jun 18;10(6):e0127787. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127787. Doornwaard SM1, ter Bogt TF1, Reitz E2, van den Eijnden RJ1. Abstract Research on the role of sex-related Internet use in adolescents’ sexual development has often isolated the Internet and online behaviors from other, offline influencing factors in adolescents’ lives, such as processes in the peer domain. The […]
J Youth Adolesc. 2015 Jul 25. Doornwaard SM1, van den Eijnden RJ, Baams L, Vanwesenbeeck I, Ter Bogt TF. LINK TO FULL STUDY Abstract Although a growing body of literature addresses the effects of young people’s use of sexually explicit Internet material, research on the compulsive use of this type of online content among adolescents […]
Behav Brain Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Jun 5. Published in final edited form as: Behav Brain Res. 2014 Apr 1; 262: 101–108. Published online 2014 Jan 7. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.12.014 PMCID: PMC4457313 NIHMSID: NIHMS554276 Rex M. Philpot, Melanie E. Engberg, and Lynn Wecker Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: […]
It is hard for teens to overcome the temptation of objects that are rewarding. Post published by Art Markman Ph.D. on Dec 12, 2014 in Ulterior Motives It is common to talk about how the teenage years are a time of risky behavior. And, when we talk about why teens engage in risky behavior, there […]
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Biol Psychiatry. 2015 May 7. pii: S0006-3223(15)00371-6. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.04.026. Kim Y1, Simon NW1, Wood J1, Moghaddam B2. Abstract BACKGROUND: Elucidating the neurobiology of the adolescent brain is fundamental to our understanding of the etiology of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and addiction, the symptoms of which often manifest during this developmental period. Dopamine neurons in […]