Diabetes Care. 2012 May;35(5):1105-11. doi: 10.2337/dc11-2250. Epub 2012 Mar 19. Dunn JP1, Kessler RM, Feurer ID, Volkow ND, Patterson BW, Ansari MS, Li R, Marks-Shulman P, Abumrad NN. Abstract OBJECTIVE: Midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons, which are involved with reward and motivation, are modulated by hormones that regulate food intake (insulin, leptin, and acyl ghrelin [AG]). […]
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Neuroscientist. 2015 Jul 13. pii: 1073858415595005. Loh KK1, Kanai R2. Abstract Throughout our evolutionary history, our cognitive systems have been altered by the advent of technological inventions such as primitive tools, spoken language, writing, and arithmetic systems. Thirty years ago, the Internet surfaced as the latest technological invention poised to deeply reshape human cognition. With […]
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PLoS One. 2015 Jul 14;10(7):e0131597. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131597. Zhang Y1, Mei S2, Li L2, Chai J2, Li J2, Du H3. Abstract Internet addiction (IA) has increasingly been recognized as a serious psychological malady among college students. Impulsivity has been shown to be associated to addictive behaviors, also to IA, and that the purpose of the study […]
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DISCLAMIER: THIS POST IS LONG AND FULL OF UNFOCUSED BLABBERING. ALSO, I’M NOT A NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER, SO IF YOU DON’T WANT YOUR EYES TO GET HURT, BETTER BRING SOME PROTECTION WITH YOU. So I have reached this proud number of 90 days without PMO. And I would like to share some of mine feelings […]
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I feel great, as in normal and compared to my time before nofap. It has been said often before: as soon as the fight is over, there are no superpowers anymore. These superpowers only seem super when seen from a place of desperation and self betrayal. They become part of who you are once you […]
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I am going to share with you the resources I believe helped me get to 365 days PMO free. I have had a problem with excessive porn viewing probably since I was thirteen/fourteen, pretty much ever since I had a computer in my room. A quick background I had multiple attempts to stop or “cut […]
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My counter says more, but I consider myself to be PMO free for 75 days today. I want to share my improvements, and give the new rebooters some advice that helped me to keep going. So first of all, when I first started I literally couldn’t remember the last time I got an erection that […]
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Front Hum Neurosci. 2015 Jun 16;9:356. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00356. eCollection 2015. Lin F1, Zhou Y2, Du Y3, Zhao Z3, Qin L2, Xu J2, Lei H1. Abnormal structure and function in the striatum and prefrontal cortex (PFC) have been revealed in Internet addiction disorder (IAD). However, little is known about alterations of corticostriatal functional circuits in IAD. […]
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Neuropharmacology. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 Jan 1. Published in final edited form as: Neuropharmacology. 2009; 56(Suppl 1): 160–168. Published online 2008 Jul 9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2008.06.070 PMCID: PMC2635339 NIHMSID: NIHMS86826 Paul Vezinaa,* and Marco Leytonb Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at […]
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