Fran Lowry |December 15, 2015 HUNTINGTON BEACH, California ― The interaction of two appetite hormones, leptin and ghrelin, may prove key to developing new drugs to treat alcohol use disorder (AUD), a new study suggests. Evidence supports the role of appetite-regulating pathways in addictions, including AUD. Ghrelin, a peptide produced by the stomach, and leptin, another feeding-related […]
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COMMENTS: This Korean fMRI study replicates other brain studies on porn users. Like the Cambridge University studies it found cue-induced brain activation patterns in sex addicts which mirrored the patterns of drug addicts. In line with several German studies it found alterations in the prefrontal cortex which match the changes observed in drug addicts. While […]
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100 Days! (2nd time around!)- what have I learned? 10 Principles of Recovery Below are several principles that have been in place for me currently and during my longest periods of abstinence. For those times when we get lost in the forest, and we need to find our way, use these principles (or those that […]
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I started PMOing at the age of 15 (I’m now 18), and did it around 10 times a week for 3 years. Last spring (around 8 months ago), without knowing about this sub, I began to try and cut back in order to be more easily aroused for my then-girlfriend. Soon after, I discovered NoFap. […]
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My old self-image: Shy, introvert, not knowing what to say, don’t have enough status to talk to certain people, don’t have the right hobbies like movies or things to talk about in order to have fun, meeting girls and enjoying socialising is completely out of my reality. My current self-image: Confident!, Introvert AND extrovert, can […]
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Link to original paper – “Neuroscience of Internet Pornography Addiction: A Review and Update” (2015) Numerous other peer-reviewed papers agree that Prause et al., 2015 supports the porn addiction model: Peer-reviewed critiques of Prause et al., 2015 Excerpt critiquing Prause et al., 2015 (citation 309) Another EEG study involving three of the same authors was […]
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Welcome to the rTribe/YBOP blog! This is our first blog with yourbrainonporn and we are stoked to officially be part of the YBOP tribe. We are all about using the power of human connection to heal addiction. For us, isolating and being disconnected from others has led to the lowest points in our lives and […]
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BMC Psychiatry. 2011; 11: 144. Published online 2011 August 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-144 PMCID: PMC3176476 Copyright©2011 Achab et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Sophia Achab,1,2,3 Magali Nicolier,1 Frédéric Mauny,4,5 Julie Monnin,1,6 Benoit Trojak,7 Pierre Vandel,1,2 Daniel Sechter,1,2 Philip Gorwood,8,9 and Emmanuel Haffen1,2,6 1Clinical Psychiatry Department, Besançon University Hospital, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France 2EA 481 “Neurosciences Laboratory”- […]
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December 3, 2015 by Eric Bowman, The Conversation Most researchers agree that the key difference between human brains and those of other animals is the size and complexity of our cerebral cortex, the brain’s outer layer of neural tissue. We therefore tend to focus our attention on this area, believing that our unique mental life […]
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She’d seen a movie where a little girl had been kidnapped. She was confused about how the movie made her feel. She went looking for that feeling. “It was a really kind of deep feeling and I just wanted to find out more about that,” she told Hack. Raised online, she says porn was easy […]
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