Serotonin and Dopamine Play Complementary Roles in Gambling to Recover Losses (2010)

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011 January; 36(2): 402–410. Published online 2010 October 27. doi:  10.1038/npp.2010.170 PMCID: PMC3055672 Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn,1,2 Judi Wakeley,3 Vanessa Herbert,4 Jennifer Cook,4,5 Paolo Scollo,6 Manaan Kar Ray,3 Sudhakar Selvaraj,3 Richard E Passingham,2 Phillip Cowen,3 and Robert D Rogers2,3,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by […]

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Neurobehavioral Evidence for the “Near-Miss” Effect in Pathological Gamblers (2010)

J Exp Anal Behav. 2010 May; 93(3): 313–328. doi:  10.1901/jeab.2010.93-313 PMCID: PMC2861872 Reza Habib and Mark R Dixon Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract The purpose of this translational study was twofold: (1) to contrast behavioral and […]

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Enhanced striatal dopamine release during food stimulation in binge eating disorder (2011)

Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Aug;19(8):1601-8. doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.27. Epub 2011 Feb 24. Wang GJ, Geliebter A, Volkow ND, Telang FW, Logan J, Jayne MC, Galanti K, Selig PA, Han H, Zhu W, Wong CT, Fowler JS. Source Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA. [email protected] Abstract Subjects with binge eating disorder (BED) regularly consume […]

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Is Porn Destroying Your Sex Life? By Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S

Posted: 09/24/2013 – LINK TO POST Statistics on Internet porn use are typically inflated. Porn providers pump up their numbers in an effort to increase advertising revenues, and anti-porn activists grab the most inflated stats they can find in an effort to show the all-pervasive nature of the supposed problem. Even the most conservative statistical […]

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Is food addiction a valid and useful concept? (2013)

Obes Rev. 2013 January; 14(1): 19–28. Published online 2012 October 12. doi:  10.1111/j.1467-789X.2012.01046.x H Ziauddeen1,2,3 and P C Fletcher1,2,3 Abstract In this paper, we consider the concept of food addiction from a clinical and neuroscientific perspective. Food addiction has an established and growing currency in the context of models of overeating and obesity, and its […]

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The obesity epidemic: the role of addiction (2012)

CMAJ. 2010 March 9; 182(4): 327–328. doi:  10.1503/cmaj.091142 PMCID: PMC2831667 Valerie H. Taylor, MD PhD, Claire M. Curtis, MA, and Caroline Davis, PhD Obesity is a global health problem, and those affected require treatment by multidisciplinary treatment teams, including specialists from mental health, medicine and even surgery. Although the cause of obesity is multifaceted, it […]

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The drive to eat: comparisons and distinctions between mechanisms of food reward and drug addiction (2012)

Nat Neurosci. 2012 Oct;15(10):1330-5. doi: 10.1038/nn.3202. DiLeone RJ, Taylor JR, Picciotto MR. Source Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Abstract The growing rates of obesity have prompted comparisons between the uncontrolled intake of food and drugs; however, an evaluation of the equivalence of food- and drug-related behaviors requires a […]

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