Protein Kinase G Regulates Dopamine Release, ΔFosB Expression, and Locomotor Activity After Repeated Cocaine Administration: Involvement of Dopamine D2 Receptors (2013)

Neurochem Res. 2013 Apr 13. Lee DK, Oh JH, Shim YB, Choe ES. Source Department of Biological Sciences, Pusan National University, 63-2 Pusandaehak-ro, Kumjeong-gu, Pusan, 609-735, Korea. Abstract Protein kinase G (PKG) activation has been implicated in the regulation of synaptic plasticity in the brain. This study was conducted to determine the involvement of PKG-associated […]

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Online Pornography’s Effects, and a New Way to Fight Them: Wall Street Journal

There is a fix for the brain-altering effects of pornography It was suspiciously warm, the reception given to a study published a week ago in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. A survey of 4,600 young people in the Netherlands, aged 15 to 25, found the behavioral impact of pornography—most of it online now—to be surprisingly […]

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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): DSM is flawed and outdated.

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Age 21 – 365 Days

One of my favourite ways to avoid PMO was to read all the success stories on the YBOP website. Kinda long but a year is a long time!: Age 20 – 365 Days I’m 21, and during exams last year, I decided porn would no longer be part of my life. When I tried writing […]

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Imbalanced Decision Hierarchy in Addicts Emerging from Drug-Hijacked Dopamine Spiraling Circuit (2013)

  Mehdi Keramati mail,   Boris Gutkin   Abstract Despite explicitly wanting to quit, long-term addicts find themselves powerless to resist drugs, despite knowing that drug-taking may be a harmful course of action. Such inconsistency between the explicit knowledge of negative consequences and the compulsive behavioral patterns represents a cognitive/behavioral conflict that is a central […]

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90 days – Hard mode: greater confidence, motivation, determination & focus. I know myself better

As most of you, I started fapping from an early age, without noticing, fapping changed my perspective about sex, as time passed by I was needing more hardcore porn than before. I unconsciously jumped from fapping at magazines like Playboy to feeling unsatisfied with 1 fap per day on hardcore porn. I felt like this […]

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