This study examined the effects of sexual reward on DeltaFosB and the effects of DeltaFosB on sexual behavior and reward. The standard molecular changes known to occur with drug addiction were found to be the same as occur with sex. In other words, DeltaFosB evolved for sexual stimuli, yet drugs hijack this very same mechanism. […]
August 29 – I’m a musician in my late twenties, and I have had a problems with my sex life ever since i can remember. Firstly, I have never had a real girlfriend, so you can also tell that I have not developed a healthy sexuality either. I have been masturbating more or less regularly […]
COMMENTS: Study found cue-induced cravings, similar to drug addicts, predicted porn addiction. Contrary to popular belief, unsatisfying sexual life had no correlation to porn addiction. Supporting the gratification hypothesis means addiction-like behaviors in response to ones chosen addiction. Laier, C., Pawlikowski, M., Pekal, J., Schulte, F. P., & Brand, M. (2013). Journal of Behavioral Addictions. […]
November 27, 2012 –It’s day 25 since my wife found my porn collection and left me taking our 5 month old daughter away. So the background, this will be a long story but I have have really appreciated being able to read everyone else’s stories and I know sharing mine will help me. I am […]
I love the 90 day challenge. Certainly that seems contradictory to that title above. However, it’s true. I love it. But there is a problem, and I’m sure I’m not the only one to notice it. What I’m speaking of is the conundrum of what happens after 90 days. Are we cured? Let me give […]
Autoradiograms showing dopamine D2 receptor levels in the brains of obese and lean rats at four months of age. Half of the rats, top row of images, had been given unrestricted access to food during the previous three months while the other half, bottom row of images, were kept on a restricted diet. Compared […]
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Trends Cogn Sci. 2011 Jan;15(1):37-46. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.11.001. Epub 2010 Nov 24. Volkow ND, Wang GJ, Baler RD. Source National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. [email protected] Abstract The ability to resist the urge to eat requires the proper functioning of neuronal circuits involved in top-down control to oppose the […]
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J Nutr. 2009 March; 139(3): 623–628. doi: 10.3945/jn.108.097584 PMCID: PMC2714381 Nicole M. Avena 1 , 2 , Pedro Rada 1 , and Bartley G. Hoebel 1 , * + Author Affiliations 1Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540 and 2The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021 *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected]. […]
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History – Richard Nixon had been president for roughly 6 months, mankind had taken it’s first steps on the moon and a neighbor showed me some hard-core porn. I was at the very first days of puberty and the intense stimulation from the sight of these photos left an incredibly deep impression upon me at […]
Neuropharmacology. 2011 Dec;61(8):1470-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2011.08.046. Sim-Selley LJ, Cassidy MP, Sparta A, Zachariou V, Nestler EJ, Selley DE. Source Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA 23298, USA. Abstract The stable transcription factor ΔFosB is induced in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) by chronic […]