Transl Psychiatry. 2017 Jan 3;7(1):e992. doi: 10.1038/tp.2016.256. Limbrick-Oldfield EH1,2, Mick I3, Cocks RE2,3, McGonigle J3, Sharman SP2,4, Goldstone AP3,5, Stokes PR3,6, Waldman A7, Erritzoe D3, Bowden-Jones H8, Nutt D3, Lingford-Hughes A3,5,8, Clark L1,2. Abstract Cue reactivity is an established procedure in addictions research for examining the subjective experience and neural basis of craving. This experiment […]
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I was always a hyper focused student who prioritized my education, and family. I got involved into porn because of environment and other factors. I started it because of curiosity, 12 years old. One search led to another, I didn’t know what I was doing, but the excitement was great. I got caught numerous times […]
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Today marks an official success story of my reboot and rewiring process: For the first time in my life, I am able to achieve/ maintain an erection and orgasm to vaginal sex WITH a condom on. This has been one, if not THE ONE, reason why I’m trying to quit pornography. Eight years ago I […]
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Today is my one year anniversary of being PMO free. I am 43 years old and have been addicted since I was a teenager. I had tried many times to get better but always found it too difficult to quit. I never understood why I failed despite trying so many different things. My wife knew […]
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I started Nofap in august, did a 45 days streak (on hardmode), binged for a week, then decided to try monkmode, which seems to be working fine. At day 100 I can say I have almost completely forgot about porn. Apparté : all the benefits I experienced came much faster during my first streak than […]
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Front Hum Neurosci. 2016; 10: 514. Published online 2016 Oct 14. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00514 PMCID: PMC5063846 Alexxai V. Kravitz,1,2,* Timothy J. O’Neal,1 and Danielle M. Friend1 Abstract Obesity is associated with physical inactivity, which exacerbates the negative health consequences of obesity. Despite a wide consensus that people with obesity should exercise more, there are few effective […]
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Available online 29 December 2016 Danielle M. Friend1, 9, Kavya Devarakonda1, 9, Timothy J. O’Neal1, 9, Miguel Skirzewski5, Ioannis Papazoglou1, Alanna R. Kaplan2, Jeih-San Liow4, Juen Guo1, Sushil G. Rane1, Marcelo Rubinstein6, 7, 8, Veronica A. Alvarez2, Kevin D. Hall1, Alexxai V. Kravitz1, 3, 10, , Show more http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2016.12.001 Highlights • Obesity is associated with […]
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Front. Psychol., 16 December 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01906 Christian Montag1,2†*, Cornelia Sindermann1†, Benjamin Becker2 and Jaak Panksepp3 1Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany 2Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation/Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China 3Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, […]
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Biol Psychol. 2016 Dec 20. pii: S0301-0511(16)30376-3. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.12.013. Leigh SJ1, Morris MJ2. Abstract The increasing worldwide prevalence of obesity is partially related to the ready availability of highly palatable foods which increases the incidence of hedonic, non-homeostatic feeding. The “food addiction” hypothesis postulates that exposure to these foods alters the brain’s reward circuitry, driving […]
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Clinical Psychology Review Volume 52, March 2017, Pages 69–76 Richard J.E. James, Richard J. Tunney, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2016.11.010 Highlights Research into behavioural addictions rarely focuses on behaviour. We argue that research on gambling may not generalise to other behavioural addictions because the schedules of reinforcement may not be comparable. The review explores the application of gambling to […]
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