Over the past two decades, U.S. parents and teachers have reported epidemic levels of children with trouble focusing, impulsive behavior and so much energy that they are bouncing off walls. Educators, policymakers and scientists have referred to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, as a national crisis and have spent billions of dollars looking into its cause. They’ve looked at genetics, brain development, exposure to […]
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Background: 34, started MO around 13, luckily I didn’t have high speed internet available then, so I used much tamer things as stimulation, like the occasional image on a calendar or matchbox packaging (do they still do those? :D) also … fantasizing about girls I saw during the day. It all went downhill when I […]
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September 11, 2017 Cocaine-addicted individuals say they find the drug much less enjoyable after years of use, but they have great difficulty quitting. A new brain imaging study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveals why this might be so, as well as why a common psychological therapy may […]
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Hum Brain Mapp. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2016 Jan 1. Published in final edited form as: Hum Brain Mapp. 2015 Jan; 36(1): 120–136. Published online 2014 Aug 21. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22617 PMCID: PMC4306601 NIHMSID: NIHMS647431 Dardo Tomasi, Ph.D.,*,1 Gene-Jack Wang, M.D.,1 Ruiliang Wang, Ph.D.,2 Elisabeth C. Caparelli, Ph.D.,3 Jean Logan, Ph.D.,4 and Nora D. Volkow, […]
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Diabetologia. 2017; 60(8): 1502–1511. Published online 2017 May 20. doi: 10.1007/s00125-017-4305-4 PMCID: PMC5491592 Chisayo Kozuka,1 Tadashi Kaname,2 Chigusa Shimizu-Okabe,3 Chitoshi Takayama,3 Masato Tsutsui,4 Masayuki Matsushita,5 Keiko Abe,6,7 and Hiroaki Masuzaki1 Abstract Aims/hypothesis Overeating of dietary fats causes obesity in humans and rodents. Recent studies in humans and rodents have demonstrated that addiction to fats shares […]
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Front Hum Neurosci. 2017 Aug 3;11:386. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00386. Wu C1, Garamszegi SP2, Xie X2, Mash DC1,2. Abstract Dopaminergic signaling in the reward pathway in the brain has been shown to play an important role in food intake and the development of obesity. Obese rats release less dopamine (DA) in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) after food […]
Read More… from Altered Dopamine Synaptic Markers in Postmortem Brain of Obese Subjects (2017)
J Neurosci. 2017 Aug 2;37(31):7390-7402. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2832-16.2017. Kable JW1, Caulfield MK2, Falcone M3, McConnell M2, Bernardo L3, Parthasarathi T2, Cooper N2, Ashare R3, Audrain-McGovern J3, Hornik R4, Diefenbach P5, Lee FJ5, Lerman C3. Abstract Increased preference for immediate over delayed rewards and for risky over certain rewards has been associated with unhealthy behavioral choices. Motivated […]
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SINCE doing NoFap for nearly 40 days (at the time of writing). The changes in me are more apparent than ever. The most notable one has been where it concerns women. My attitude towards women has changed from not watching porn and masturbating – and all the better for it. There’s no longer an artificial […]
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Front Psychol. 2017; 8: 1150. Published online 2017 Jul 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01150 PMCID: PMC5504237 Lingxiao Wang,1,2,3 Lingdan Wu,4 Yifan Wang,1 Hui Li,1 Xiaoyue Liu,1 Xiaoxia Du,5 and Guangheng Dong1,6,* Abstract Although the neural substrates of cue reactivity in Internet gaming disorder (IGD) have been examined in previous studies, most of these studies focused on the […]
Read More… from Altered Brain Activities Associated with Craving and Cue Reactivity in People with Internet Gaming Disorder: Evidence from the Comparison with Recreational Internet Game Users (2017)
Fascinating self-report by a man who has experienced firsthand the changes in smell also described in this report: A totally unscientific observation from a lady’s point of view. […]
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