J Neurosci. 2006 Jul 5;26(27):7163-71. Le Merrer J1, Stephens DN. PMID: 16822973 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5345-05.2006 Abstract Repeated administration of abused drugs sensitizes their stimulant effects and results in a drug-paired environment eliciting conditioned activity. We tested whether food induces similar effects. Food-deprived male mice were given novel food during 30 min tests in a runway (FR […]
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Enrico Patrono , Matteo Di Segni , Loris Patella, Diego Andolina, Alessandro Valzania, Emanuele Claudio Latagliata, Armando Felsani, Assunta Pompili, Antonella Gasbarri, Stefano Puglisi-Allegra, Rossella Ventur Published: March 17, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120191 Abstract Background Eating disorders appear to be caused by a complex interaction between environmental and genetic factors, and compulsive eating in response to adverse […]
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Med Hypotheses. 2016 Aug;93:62-70. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2016.05.015. Patrono E1, Gasbarri A2, Tomaz C3, Nishijo H4. Article Outline Introduction The “incentive-sensitization” theory The “hedonic dysregulation” theory The “habit-based learning” theory A “temporal continuum” hypotheses involving the aberrant motivation, the hedonic dysregulation, and the aberrant learning Neuro-bio-physiological background of drug addiction “temporal continuum” hypotheses The neural basis of […]
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Well, I’ve hit a 60 day milestone in being PMO-free. The first 30 days were very much focused on figuring out an effective path to discontinuing PMO, and the last 30 days I’ve been able to focus on rebooting my marriage – in general and our sex life. Before starting NoFap, I was on a […]
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I went downtown yesterday to deliver some papers somewhere and I had a pretty good time. I feel a lot more confident now, more aggressive, flirty and talkative. I still have a long way ahead of me, still have to change lot of things, but I can see the light at the end of the […]
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A look at the science behind porn-induced erectile dysfunction. 03/06/2016 6:26 AM AEST | Updated June 21, 2016 12:39 Emily Blatchford Associate Lifestyle Editor, HuffPost Australia Ever come across the acronym PIED? It stands for ‘Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction‘, and it’s a condition affecting young Australian men. In fact, according to relationship counsellor, sex therapist […]
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Nat Neurosci. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2016 Jan 15. Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2014 May; 17(5): 704–709. Published online 2014 Apr 6. doi: 10.1038/nn.3694 PMCID: PMC4714770 NIHMSID: NIHMS574802 Ingo Willuhn,1,2,3,* Lauren M. Burgeno,1,2 Peter A. Groblewski,2 and Paul E. M. Phillips1,2 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The […]
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Nat Neurosci. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2016 Jun 30. Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2014 May; 17(5): 644–646. PMCID: PMC4928687 NIHMSID: NIHMS791448 Daniele Caprioli, Donna Calu, and Yavin Shaham Author information ► Copyright and License information ► See the article “Excessive cocaine use results from decreased phasic dopamine signaling in the […]
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Today is my 121st day without P. Since late February I haven’t watched any kind of P. During the first 3 months I only had a couple of MO sessions. The longest I was ever able to go on hard mode was 48 days. Now I no longer see the hard mode as a priority […]
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Preamble It seems altogether premature to write a success story after what seems like such a short time of having been PMO-free, but since I have met the criterion for posting in this section, I feel that I may be able to contribute something of use to others. I’m thinking that more like six months […]
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