This success story is important because I used to come on this website every day and see no improvement. Unfortunately, quitting porn is only half the battle. This story looks into the other equally important problems that I initially overlooked. Everyone says ‘I was the worst case scenario’. I won’t say that, but my case […]
Read More… from Age 21 – Porn-induced ED, HOCD and Vagina Phobia finally cured after years
BMB Rep. 2013 Nov; 46(11): 519–526. doi: 10.5483/BMBRep.2013.46.11.207 PMCID: PMC4133846 Ja-Hyun Baik* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Dopamine (DA) regulates emotional and motivational behavior through the mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway. Changes in DA signaling in mesolimbic neurotransmission […]
Read More… from Dopamine signaling in food addiction: role of dopamine D2 receptors (2013)
Biol Psychiatry. 2015 Jan 15;77(2):196-202. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.02.017. Epub 2013 Mar 27. Caravaggio F1, Raitsin S1, Gerretsen P2, Nakajima S3, Wilson A2, Graff-Guerrero A4. Abstract BACKGROUND: Positron emission tomography research has shown that dopamine D2/3 receptor (D2/3R) availability is negatively correlated with body mass index (BMI) in obese but not in healthy subjects. However, previous positron […]
Read More… from Ventral striatum binding of a dopamine D2/3 receptor agonist but not antagonist predicts normal body mass index (2015)
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2015 Mar 4. doi: 10.1038/npp.2015.60. de Jong JW1, Roelofs TJ1, Mol FM1, Hillen AE1, Meijboom KE1, Luijendijk MC1, van der Eerden HA1, Garner KM1, Vanderschuren LJ2, Adan RA1. Abstract Altered mesolimbic dopamine signaling has been widely implicated in addictive behavior. For the most part, this work has focused on dopamine within the striatum, but […]
Read More… from Reducing Ventral Tegmental Dopamine D2 Receptor Expression Selectively Boosts Incentive Motivation (2015)
Exp Neurobiol. 2015 Mar;24(1):90-4. doi: 10.5607/en.2015.24.1.90. Epub 2015 Jan 21. Cho SS1, Yoon EJ1, Kim SE2. 1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam 463-707, Korea. 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam 463-707, Korea. ; Department of […]
Read More… from Asymmetry of Dopamine D2/3 Receptor Availability in Dorsal Putamen and Body Mass Index in Non-obese Healthy Males (2015)
NoFap is becoming more popular as the days go on. A few years ago not many people knew about it. Now I truly believe NoFap is almost mainstream. I didn’t believe the hype at first either, but here are the 15 benefits I have experienced, and I have seen countless others report. (Read entire blog […]
Read More… from Age 20 – 15 Benefits of NoFap and Quitting Pornography
I’ve gone 250 days with out intentionally masturbating with or with out porn and I’m glad to say that after months of constant stress and depression my ED has finally gone for good. My troubles with porn began in the same way I know most of yours will have done; here’s my story. I was […]
Read More… from Age 19 – 9 miserable months, ED and social anxiety GONE
Pauline Belujon , Anthony A. Grace DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2516 Published 18 March 2015 Abstract Although, historically, the norepinephrine system has attracted the majority of attention in the study of the stress response, the dopamine system has also been consistently implicated. It has long been established that stress plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of psychiatric […]
Read More… from Regulation of dopamine system responsivity and its adaptive and pathological response to stress (2015)
I’ve been a lurker here for a few months. Read a ton of success stories on here as well as yourbrainonporn.com. It’s taken me about 4 years to get where I am now. I made it to 45 or so days multiple times and something always seemed to trigger relapse. Most times, I think it […]
Read More… from Age 34 – Make a ripple in the collective consciousness of humanity
Front Cell Neurosci. 2015; 9: 25. Published online 2015 Mar 2. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00025 PMCID: PMC4345909 Fabrizio Gardoni1 and Camilla Bellone2,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Dopamine (DA) plays a major role in motor and cognitive functions as well as in reward processing by regulating glutamatergic inputs. […]
Read More… from Modulation of the glutamatergic transmission by Dopamine: a focus on Parkinson, Huntington and Addiction diseases (2015)