FULL STUDY – PDF College students’ heavy Internet use shares symptoms of addiction December 18, 2013 by Linda Fulps Young adults who are heavy users of the Internet may also exhibit signs of addiction, say researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences in […]
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Front Psychiatry. 2011; 2: 64. PMCID: PMC3225760 Marco Diana1,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Dopamine (DA) transmission is deeply affected by drugs of abuse, and alterations in DA function are involved in the various phases of […]
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Front Psychiatry. 2013; 4: 72. Published online 2013 August 1. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00072 George F. Koob1,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Drug addiction can be defined by a three-stage cycle – binge/intoxication, withdrawal/negative affect, and preoccupation/anticipation […]
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Posted By News On December 17, 2013 – 3:30pm As many parents of mentally ill adults will confirm anecdotally, the first symptoms of “something not quite right” with their children begin to appear during the teen years. It is known that during this teenaged phase of brain development, adolescents are particularly vulnerable to psychiatric disorders, […]
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J Neurosci. 2007 Nov 14;27(46):12700-6. Volkow ND, Wang GJ, Telang F, Fowler JS, Logan J, Jayne M, Ma Y, Pradhan K, Wong C. Source National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. [email protected] Next Section Abstract The value of rewards (natural rewards and drugs) is associated with dopamine increases in the nucleus accumbens and […]
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Nat Neurosci. 2011 January; 14(1): 22–24. Published online 2010 December 5. doi: 10.1038/nn.2703 PMCID: PMC3058296 NIHMSID: NIHMS245934 SM Ferguson,1 D Eskenazi,1 M Ishikawa,2 MJ Wanat,1,3 PEM Phillips,1,3 Y Dong,2 BL Roth,4 and JF Neumaier1,3 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Nat Neurosci […]
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The overlap between binge eating disorder and substance use disorders: Diagnosis and neurobiology Journal Journal of Behavioral Addictions Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó ISSN 2062-5871 (Print) 2063-5303 (Online) Subject Psychology and Psychiatry Issue Volume 2, Number 4/December 2013 Category Review Article Pages 191-198 DOI 10.1556/JBA.2.2013.015 Subject Group Behavioral Science Online Date Tuesday, October 15, 2013 References Ait-Daoud, […]
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I’m in my early 30’s and had been using internet porn for approximately 20 years. I first came across all this about a year ago and after a few attempts I’ve now hit 100 days nofap, no porn. I thought I’d give a summary of how it’s gone and what’s happened over the last year […]
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PLoS One. 2011; 6(9): e24992. Published online 2011 September 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024992 PMCID: PMC3181252 Albino J. Oliveira-Maia,1,*¤a¤b Craig D. Roberts,1 Q. David Walker,2 Brooke Luo,1 Cynthia Kuhn,2 Sidney A. Simon,1,3,5 and Miguel A. L. Nicolelis1,3,4,5,6 Xiaoxi Zhuang, Editor Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by […]
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