The cognitive psychology of Internet gaming disorder (2014)

Clinical Psychology Review Volume 34, Issue 4, June 2014, Pages 298–308 Daniel L. King, Paul H. Delfabbro doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2014.03.006   Highlights We review 36 studies on Internet gaming disorder cognition IGD treatment studies employing CT tend to lack cognition-based measures. Four types of cognition may underlie Internet gaming disorder. Implications for criterion A of DSM-5 Internet […]

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Risk-taking and pathological gambling behavior in Huntington’s disease (2014)

Front. Behav. Neurosci., 02 April 2014 | Carla Kalkhoven1, Cor Sennef1, Ard Peeters1 and Ruud van den Bos2* 1Chardon Pharma, Herpen, Netherlands 2Department of Organismal Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands Huntington’s disease (HD) is a genetic, neurodegenerative disorder, which specifically affects striatal neurons of the indirect pathway, resulting in a […]

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A new approach to assess gambling-like behavior in laboratory rats: using intracranial self-stimulation as a positive reinforcer (2014)

Front. Behav. Neurosci., 11 June 2014 | Stephanie E. Tedford1,2*, Nathan A. Holtz1,2, Amanda L. Persons1,2† and T. Celeste Napier1,2,3 1Department of Pharmacology, Center for Compulsive Behavior and Addiction, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA 2Department of Pharmacology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, […]

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Salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase levels during an assessment procedure correlate differently with risk-taking measures in male and female police recruits (2014)

Front. Behav. Neurosci., 16 January 2014 | Ruud van den Bos1*, Ruben Taris2, Bianca Scheppink2, Lydia de Haan3 and Joris C. Verster3,4 1Department of Organismal Animal Physiology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands 2Police Academy, Recruitment and Selection, Apeldoorn, Netherlands 3Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands 4Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, […]

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Imbalanced functional link between executive control network and reward network explain the online-game seeking behaviors in Internet gaming disorder (2015)

Sci Rep. 2015; 5: 9197. Published online 2015 Mar 17. doi:  10.1038/srep09197 PMCID: PMC4361884 Guangheng Dong,a,1 Xiao Lin,1 Yanbo Hu,2 Chunming Xie,3 and Xiaoxia Du4 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Literatures have shown that Internet gaming disorder (IGD) subjects show impaired executive control and enhanced reward […]

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Age 26 – PIED: Succesful sex. Still have sensitivty issues. Started 30 months ago.

I’ve finally reached 90 days. I have to be clear that it wasn’t a completely clean one as I peaked at erotic pictures few times and O’ed to naked picture twice during the 90 days. However, I don’t believe in all-or-nothing so I never ended up binging. Here are my thoughts: Overall, I’ve changed my […]

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Age 19 – PIED: Far less social anxiety, More confident, I see women as humans instead of objects

I’m going to say a few things regarding my porn and video game addiction. I believe that every time we relapse it is because we decided our reason for quitting wasn’t good enough. Every little decision shapes our minds literally. This, I know this applies to everyone. I’ve seen a quote on the internet along […]

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Factors modulating neural reactivity to drug cues in addiction: a survey of human neuroimaging studies (2013)

Neurosci Biobehav Rev. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Jan 1. Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2014 Jan; 38: 1–16. Published online 2013 Nov 6. doi:  10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.10.013 PMCID: PMC3913480 NIHMSID: NIHMS544093 Agnes J. Jasinska,1,* Elliot A. Stein,1 Jochen Kaiser,2 Marcus J. Naumer,2 and Yavor Yalachkov2,* Author information ► Copyright and License […]

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Appetitive vs Aversive conditioning in humans (2015)

Front Behav Neurosci. 2015 May 19;9:128. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00128. eCollection 2015. Andreatta M1, Pauli P1. Abstract In classical conditioning, an initially neutral stimulus (conditioned stimulus, CS) becomes associated with a biologically salient event (unconditioned stimulus, US), which might be pain (aversive conditioning) or food (appetitive conditioning). After a few associations, the CS is able to initiate […]

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