LINK TO ARTICLE by Laura Sanders Mice that grew up with lots of flashing lights and noise had brain and behavior abnormalities. SAN DIEGO — Mice raised in cages bombarded with glowing lights and sounds have profound brain abnormalities and behavioral trouble. Hours of daily stimulation led to behaviors reminiscent of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, scientists reported […]
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My time was full of mistakes, ups and downs, confusion, almost edging experience, fantasy and so many things. How ever each blow taught me something new, made me more strong, and gave me that push to ask people here in NoFap, people’s view and response were just amazing. Note: This report of mine isn’t a […]
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LINK TO STUDY Cognitive Neuroscience Pin-Hao Andy Chen, Robert S. Chavez & Todd F. Heatherton Pages 1-5 | Received 19 Apr 2016, Accepted 05 Sep 2016, Accepted author version posted online: 23 Sep 2016, Published online: 11 Oct 2016 Abstract Failure to maintain a healthy body weight may reflect a long-term imbalance between the […]
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Sci Rep. 2016; 6: 34122. Published online 2016 Sep 23. doi: 10.1038/srep34122 PMCID: PMC5034231 Dirk De Ridder,1 Patrick Manning,a,2 Sook Ling Leong,1 Samantha Ross,2 Wayne Sutherland,2 Caroline Horwath,3 and Sven Vanneste4 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Obesity is among the greatest challenges facing healthcare systems with […]
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I’m 23 and I’ve been a passionate fapper for…9 years? At the moment I’m 60 days clean of Porn and Masturbation. Sometimes it was easy, sometimes it was harder. I never thought porn and masturbation made me suffer. No, I thought every man needs it to function, when not having real sex. Oh yeah, stupid […]
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Perspective ARTICLE Front. Hum. Neurosci., 15 August 2016 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00402 Mateusz Gola1,2*, Małgorzata Wordecha2,3, Artur Marchewka3 and Guillaume Sescousse4 1Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computations, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA 2Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 3Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Neurobiology Center, Nencki Institute of […]
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Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016 Aug 12. doi: 10.1038/npp.2016.151. Decot HK1,2, Namboodiri VM2,3, Gao W4,5, McHenry JA2, Jennings JH1,2, Lee SH5,6, Kantak PA2, Kao YC5,6, Das M5,6, Witten IB7, Deisseroth K8, Shih YY1,5,6,9, Stuber GD1,2,3. Abstract Several neuropsychiatric conditions, such as addiction and schizophrenia may arise in part from dysregulated activity of ventral tegmental area dopaminergic (THVTA) neurons, […]
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[youtube]https://youtu.be/ztm2knaLBFc[/youtube] Nodes and Edges: Adolescent consolidation of the hubs of the human brain connectome Nodes of the adolescent brain’s structural network coloured by how much they change between 14 and 24 years of age. The size of the nodes represent how well connected they are and halfway through the movie the smallest nodes are removed […]
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Paula A. Gajewski, Gustavo Turecki, Alfred J. Robison Published: August 5, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160355 Abstract Chronic exposure to stress or drugs of abuse has been linked to altered gene expression throughout the body, and changes in gene expression in discrete brain regions are thought to underlie many psychiatric diseases, including major depressive disorder and drug addiction. […]
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Hey you all 🙂 From today on I am going to leave Nofap! Maybe I will check in after a while but I think I probably won’t. I don’t know how many days I am on and it honestly doesn’t matter. This was my old me and I have left it behind. There is no […]
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