J Res Health Sci. 2018 Aug 18;18(3):e00423. Tabatabaee HR1, Rezaianzadeh A2, Jamshidi M3. Abstract BACKGROUND: Adolescence obesity has now become an epidemic. In recent years, Internet addiction has been identified as a risk factor for obesity. We aimed to evaluate the role of some mediators such as sleep quality, physical activity and fast food consumption […]
Sex Health. 2018 Oct 2. doi: 10.1071/SH17210. Adhikari N, Adhikari S, Sulemane NI. Abstract Background: Sexual behaviour of young people is one of the major public health issues. This is because adolescent people may involve themselves in risky sexual behaviour such as practising sex at an early age, having multiple sexual partners, having sex while […]
Sexual brain training matters—especially during adolescence (Note: View numerous comments below this article) It’s normal for kids to want to learn all about sex, especially during puberty and adolescence. This is when reproduction becomes the brain’s top priority. For this we can thank the specifics of teen-brain development. Think of an adolescent jungle primate watching […]
Read More… from Why Shouldn’t Johnny Watch Porn If He Likes? (2011)
Internet porn’s supernormal stimulation can blight women’s sex lives too A popular online Swedish news magazine recently reported that women are noticing their own version of “porn impotence,” (already reported in Swedish men). Says one woman, “I have wondered about the reason for my lack of interest in sex in-real-life. … I can definitely see […]
Behav Sci (Basel). 2016 Sep; 6(3): 17. Published online 2016 Aug 5. doi: 10.3390/bs6030017 Brian Y. Park,1 Gary Wilson,2 Jonathan Berger,3 Matthew Christman,3 Bryn Reina,4 Frank Bishop,5 Warren P. Klam,4 and Andrew P. Doan4,5,* Abstract Traditional factors that once explained men’s sexual difficulties appear insufficient to account for the sharp rise in erectile dysfunction, delayed […]
Neuroscience and PSBs In recent years, neuroscience discoveries about the reward system and human sexuality have shed new light on both problematic and healthy sexual behavior. As can be expected with any new paradigm, however, some doubtful neuroscience claims have also appeared in the media. As a neurosurgeon and the author of several papers on […]
Subregions of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Form Distinct Functional Connectivity Patterns in Young Males With Internet Gaming Disorder With Comorbid Depression (2018) Front Psychiatry. 2018 Aug 29;9:380. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00380. eCollection 2018. Lee D1,2, Lee J2, Namkoong K2,3, Jung YC2,3. Abstract Depression is one of the most common comorbid conditions in Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). Although […]
J Behav Addict. 2018 Sep 28:1-12. doi: 10.1556/2006.7.2018.75. Torres-Rodríguez A1, Griffiths MD2, Carbonell X1, Oberst U1. Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) has become a topic of increasing research interest since its inclusion in Section 3 of the DSM-5. Given the lack of clinical studies concerning IGD, exploring the characteristics of clinical samples […]
U.S. kids, ages 8 to 11, averaged 3.6 hours a day playing on their digital devices By Laura Sanders September 26, 2018 TIME OUT – Kids who spent less than two hours a day on screens performed better on memory, thinking and language tests than kids who used screens more, a large study finds. Nearly […]
Read More… from (L) Survey raises worries about how screen time affects kids’ brains (2018)
Editorial ARTICLE Front. Psychiatry, 06 September 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00404 Jin-Tao Zhang1* and Matthias Brand2* 1State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 2Department of General Psychology: Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany Neural Mechanisms Underlying Internet Gaming […]
Read More… from Editorial: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Internet Gaming Disorder (2018)