“The Anatomy of a Lazy News Article About Porn, In Four Parts” (Pornhelp.org)

Visit post. Listen up, everybody. Here at PornHelp, we are not inclined to label news as “fake” or “real.” Not for any political reason. We just find those tags uselessly reductive. They too-easily surrender our right and obligation as citizens to think critically about every piece of information we absorb over the airwaves and internets. […]

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Relationship between quality of life in young adults and impulsivity/compulsivity (2019)

Psychiatry Research Volume 271, January 2019, Pages 253-258 Samuel R.Chamberlaina Jon E.Grantb https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.059 Highlights • This study examined measures associated with quality of life in young adults. • Impulse control disorders were strongly associated with lower quality of life. • Trait impulsiveness and cognition were also associated with worse quality of life. Abstract Impulsive and […]

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Dopamine, Noradrenaline and Differences in Sexual Behavior between Roman High and Low Avoidance Male Rats: A Microdialysis Study in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

Front. Behav. Neurosci., 07 June 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00108 tex Fabrizio Sanna1*, Jessica Bratzu1, Maria A. Piludu2, Maria G. Corda2, Maria R. Melis1, Osvaldo Giorgi2 and Antonio Argiolas1,3 1Department of Biomedical Sciences, Section of Neuroscience and Clinical Pharmacology, and Centre of Excellence for the Neurobiology of Addictions, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy 2Department of Life and […]

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Breaking the habit. Commentary on: Policy responses to problematic video game use: A systematic review of current measures and future possibilities (Király et al., 2018)

J Behav Addict. 2018 Nov 14:1-3. doi: 10.1556/2006.7.2018.110. Müller KW1. Abstract Internet gaming disorder has been widely recognized as a new health issue. At present, we are experiencing a rapid growth of knowledge on different aspects of this disorder, such as, for instance, prevalence rates, underlying neurobiological mechanisms, and treatment strategies. In contrast, preventing individuals […]

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Ventral Striatal Reactivity in Compulsive Sexual Behaviors (2018)

Front. Psychiatry, 14 November 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00546 Mateusz Gola1,2* and Małgorzata Draps1 1Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 2Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computations, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States Compulsive Sexual Behaviors (CSB) are a reason to seek treatment. Given this reality, the number […]

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Mapping Internet gaming disorder using effective connectivity: A spectral dynamic causal modeling study (2018)

Addict Behav. 2018 Oct 16;90:62-70. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.10.019. Wang M1, Zheng H1, Du X2, Dong G3. Abstract OBJECTS: Understanding the neural basis underlying Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of this type of behavioural addiction. Aberrant resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the default mode network (DMN) has been reported in individuals […]

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