Chapter 3 – Stress psychobiology in the context of addiction medicine: from drugs of abuse to behavioral addictions (2016)

Progress in Brain Research Volume 223, 2016, Pages 43–62 Neuroscience for Addiction Medicine: From Prevention to Rehabilitation – Constructs and Drugs Abstract In this chapter, we briefly review the basic biology of psychological stress and the stress response. We propose that psychological stress and the neurobiology of the stress response play in substance use initiation, […]

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Age 17 – I’m basically reborn. I went from Yamcha to Son Goku in SuperSayen in a few months

I’m a french student and 17, I’ve had maladaptive daydreaming from 7yo to 16yo, basically I would make a repetitive movement with my hand and get lost in my imagination for long periods of time, sometimes hours, I think it was my way to escape the reality, no one ever found out, I’ve been seen 2-3 times […]

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Video Game Addiction in Gambling Disorder: Clinical, Psychopathological, and Personality Correlates (2014)

Biomed Res Int. 2014; 2014: 315062. Published online 2014 Jul 14. doi:  10.1155/2014/315062 PMCID: PMC4122146 Susana Jiménez-Murcia, 1 , 2 , 3 ,* Fernando Fernández-Aranda, 1 , 2 , 3 Roser Granero, 2 , 4 Mariano Chóliz, 5 Melania La Verde, 6 Eugenio Aguglia, 6 Maria S. Signorelli, 6 Gustavo M. Sá, 7 Neus Aymamí, […]

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Several long streaks

I don’t like posting my own success story, nor do I even like calling it that. In a way the struggle we face is so odd, because we are struggling to just get back into our normal bodies. We have fallen below the realm of reason and logic, trying to dig upwards towards the surface […]

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Optogenetic dissection of medial prefrontal cortex circuitry (2014)

Front Syst Neurosci. 2014; 8: 230. Published online 2014 Dec 9. doi:  10.3389/fnsys.2014.00230 PMCID: PMC4260491 Danai Riga,† Mariana R. Matos,† Annet Glas, August B. Smit, Sabine Spijker, and Michel C. Van den Oever* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go […]

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(L) UBC study shows flashing lights and music turn rats into problem gamblers (2016)

LINK TO ARTICLE By Paula Baker Online News Producer  Global News Even though the subjects were rats gambling for sugary treats, a new study by scientists at the University of British Columbia shows adding flashing lights and music in the background encourages risky decision-making. Published in the Journal of Neuroscience, UBC researchers were trying to […]

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