I changed on so many levels during this NoFap journey! Changes were physical and emotional. To put it simply: I grew a pair of balls. I express my ideas at work, with friends and family. I play around with kids, kids are awesome! I learn so much from them. I actually gave my crush flowers […]
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2010 Jan; 35(1): 27–47. Published online 2009 Aug 12. doi: 10.1038/npp.2009.93 PMCID: PMC2879005 NIHMSID: NIHMS204857 Susan R Sesack1,2,* and Anthony A Grace1,2,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Many of the brain’s reward systems converge on […]
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Eur J Neurosci. 2008 Oct;28(8):1437-48. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06422.x. Yin HH1, Ostlund SB, Balleine BW. Abstract Here we challenge the view that reward-guided learning is solely controlled by the mesoaccumbens pathway arising from dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area and projecting to the nucleus accumbens. This widely accepted view assumes that reward is a monolithic concept, […]
Neuron. 2003 Apr 24;38(2):339-46. McClure SM1, Berns GS, Montague PR. FULL STUDY PDF Abstract Functional MRI experiments in human subjects strongly suggest that the striatum participates in processing information about the predictability of rewarding stimuli. However, stimuli can be unpredictable in character (what stimulus arrives next), unpredictable in time (when the stimulus arrives), and unpredictable […]
J Neurosci. 2003 Sep 3;23(22):8092-7. Zink CF1, Pagnoni G, Martin ME, Dhamala M, Berns GS. Next Section Abstract Although one proposed function of both the striatum and its major dopamine inputs is related to coding rewards and reward-related stimuli, an alternative view suggests a more general role of the striatum in processing salient events, regardless […]
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Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2003 Oct;170(1):62-72. Epub 2003 Jul 4. Sinha R1, Talih M, Malison R, Cooney N, Anderson GM, Kreek MJ. Abstract RATIONALE: Environmental stimuli associated with cocaine are known to elicit drug craving and increase the likelihood of relapse. However, the psychobiological changes that occur with exposure to these stimuli and in episodes of drug […]
International Journal of Impotence Research (2003) 15, 72–78. doi:10.1038/sj.ijir.3900952 Benjamin D Sachs1 1University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA Correspondence: BD Sachs, PhD, Department of Psychology, U-1020, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Received 8 August 2002; Accepted 16 September 2002. Top of page Abstract The traditional distinction between organic and psychogenic erectile dysfunction (ED) was maintained in […]
Nutrients. 2014 Dec 31;7(1):223-38. doi: 10.3390/nu7010223. Pedram P1, Sun G2. Pardis Pedram and Guang Sun* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract The concept of food addiction (FA) is a potentially important contributing factor to the development of obesity in the general population; however, little is known about […]
Soc Cog Affect Neurosci (2011) doi: 10.1093/scan/nsq092 First published online: January 5, 2011 Bianca P. Acevedo1, Arthur Aron1, Helen E. Fisher2 and Lucy L. Brown3 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA, 2Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, and 3Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Correspondence should […]
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Neuroimage. 2010 Mar;50(1):208-16. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.034. Epub 2009 Dec 16. Georgiadis JR1, Farrell MJ, Boessen R, Denton DA, Gavrilescu M, Kortekaas R, Renken RJ, Hoogduin JM, Egan GF. Abstract This study used arterial spin labeling (ASL) fMRI to measure brain perfusion in a group of healthy men under conditions that closely resembled customary sexual behavior. Serial […]