COMMENTS: 8 weeks of exercise significantly increased D2 receptors in meth addicts undergoing treatment. This supports the following: Exercise can help reverse desensitization even in meth addicts. D2 receptor levels are not set in stone: environment matters. Meth use seems to cause a drop in D2 receptors. As with #2 this refutes the “you born […]
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COMMENTS: 8 weeks of exercise significantly increased D2 receptors in meth addicts undergoing treatment. This supports the following: Exercise can help reverse desensitization even in meth addicts. D2 receptor levels are not set in stone: environment matters. Meth use seems to cause a drop in D2 receptors. As with #2 this refutes the “you born […]
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Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2015 Oct 21. pii: S0924-977X(15)00329-6. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2015.10.004. Engel JA1, Nylander I2, Jerlhag E3. Abstract Gut-brain hormones such as ghrelin have recently been suggested to have a role in reward regulation. Ghrelin was traditionally known to regulate food intake and body weight homoeostasis. In addition, recent work has pin-pointed that this peptide has a […]
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Published online before print 2013, doi: 10.1530/EC-13-0028 Endocr Connect 2013 vol. 2 no. 3 R1-R14 Gavin P Vinson⇑ and Caroline H Brennan + Author Affiliations School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK Correspondence should be addressed to G P Vinson Email: [email protected] Next Section Abstract Substantial evidence […]
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Comments: Men who become attracted to transgender (colloquially, shemale) porn/partners are typically heterosexual in their identification and arousal patterns–that is, typically not homosexual or even bisexual. The researchers are unable to speculate why this taste develops, but many internet porn users ascribe this fetish to heavy internet porn use and the search for something more […]
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Melissa A. Stouffer, Catherine A. Woods, Jyoti C. Patel, Christian R. Lee, Paul Witkovsky, Li Bao, Robert P. Machold, Kymry T. Jones, Soledad Cabeza de Vaca, Maarten E. A. Reith, Kenneth D. Carr & Margaret E. Rice Affiliations Contributions Corresponding author Nature Communications 6, Article number: 8543 doi:10.1038/ncomms9543 Received 02 June 2015 Accepted […]
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At the age of 17 I discovered Hentai, I was thinking like this : it’s only created person so it is bad for no one and it’s not a sin because I don’t covet anyone… I was stupid lol. At first I was only checking picture and vanilla stuff but it escalated quickly and I […]
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Why Binge Drinking May Wire the Brain for Alcohol Dependence. By R. Douglas Fields | October 23, 2015 Proteins that surround neurons in an area of the cerebral cortex may solidify compulsive drinking behaviors. Amy Lasek “Why can’t you stop drinking?” This week at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago, researchers […]
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Comments: This paper (abstract below) contains two longitudinal studies examining the effects of Internet porn on “delay discounting.” Delay discounting happens when people choose ten dollars right now rather than 20 dollars in a week. It’s the inability to delay immediate gratification for a more valuable reward in the future. Think of the famous Stanford […]
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I entered into a positive set of habits at the beginning of the year, nofap, a religiously attended body building routine, healthy diet 24/7, reduced drinking, the whole lot. This set of habits, meant that I became more confident with women due to their change of attitude towards me, so making up for lost time, […]
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