Immaturities in reward processing and its influence on inhibitory control in adolescence (2010)

Cereb Cortex. 2010 Jul;20(7):1613-29. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhp225. Epub 2009 Oct 29. Geier CF, Terwilliger R, Teslovich T, Velanova K, Luna B. Author information Laboratory of Neurocognitive Development, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. [email protected] Abstract The nature of immature reward processing and the […]

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Pathological gambling: a neurobiological and clinical update (2011)

The British Journal of Psychiatry (2011) 199: 87-89 doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.088146 Henrietta Bowden-Jones, MRCPsych, DOccMed, MD Luke Clark, DPhil + Author Affiliations Imperial College London, and the National Problem Gambling Clinic, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK + Author Notes Henrietta Bowden-Jones […]

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Exercise rehabilitation for smartphone addiction (2013)

J Exerc Rehabil. 2013 Dec 31;9(6):500-505. Hyunna Kim* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Internet addiction after launching smartphone is becoming serious. Therefore this paper has attempted to sketch out the diverse addiction treatment and then check the feasibility of exercise rehabilitation. The reason to addict the […]

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Internet addiction disorder and youth: There are growing concerns about compulsive online activity and that this could impede students’ performance and social lives (2014)

EMBO Rep. 2014 Jan 1;15(1):12-6. doi: 10.1002/embr.201338222. Wallace P. Author information Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth (CTY) online programs and IT. http://embor.embopress.org/content/15/1/12 Although ‘Internet addiction disorder’ is not officially recognized as a disorder by the psychiatric community—it was not included in the recently released Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder V (DSM‐V), […]

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Adolescent Development of the Reward System (2010)

Front Hum Neurosci. 2010; 4: 6. Published online 2010 February 12. Prepublished online 2009 September 3. doi:  10.3389/neuro.09.006.2010 PMCID: PMC2826184 Adriana Galvan1,2,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by increased reward-seeking behavior. Investigators […]

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Went from a boy with a PMO/gaming addiction doing nothing with my life to a man with desire, responsibilities, relationships and happiness.

Before I start, I wanna say that it would be basically impossible to describe to all of your the tremendous amount of change that has happened in this last year as a result of NoFap. It took me a little over a year to finally hit 90 days and there were times where I thought […]

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Age 23 – Had ADHD and anxiety: Anxiety almost gone, ADHD still there but reduced. Better life

TL;DR: Had ADHD and anxiety, started NoFap, Anxiety almost gone, ADHD still there but reduced. Better life. Feelsgoodman. Firstly, my first language isn’t English so go easy on me If I make any grammar mistakes. Secondly, I will try to get as much out of me as possible from my experience of NoFap in my […]

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