Dopamine modulates reward system activity during subconscious processing of sexual stimuli (2012)

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2012 Jun;37(7):1729-37. doi: 10.1038/npp.2012.19. Epub 2012 Mar 7. Oei NY, Rombouts SA, Soeter RP, van Gerven JM, Both S. Source Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition-LIBC, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. [email protected] Abstract Dopaminergic medication influences conscious processing of rewarding stimuli, and is associated with impulsive-compulsive behaviors, such as hypersexuality. Previous studies have shown […]

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DeltaFosB enhances the rewarding effects of cocaine while reducing the pro-depressive effects of the kappa-opioid receptor agonist U50488 (2012)

COMMENTS: Explains the differences between stress induced deltafosb induction and deltafosb induction that sensitizes the nucleus accumbens Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Jan 1;71(1):44-50. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.08.011. Epub 2011 Sep 29. Muschamp JW, Nemeth CL, Robison AJ, Nestler EJ, Carlezon WA Jr. Source Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, USA. […]

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(L) Video games boost visual attention but reduce impulse control (2013)

Video games boost visual attention but reduce impulse control A person playing a first-person shooter video game like Halo or Unreal Tournament must make decisions quickly. That fast-paced decision-making, it turns out, boosts the player’s visual skills but comes at a cost, according to new research: reducing the person’s ability to inhibit impulsive behavior. This […]

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Pornography Addiction – A Supranormal Stimulus Considered in the Context of Neuroplasticity (2013)

Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD* Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, USA Abstract Addiction has been a divisive term when applied to various compulsive sexual behaviors (CSBs), including obsessive use of pornography. Despite a growing acceptance of the existence of natural or process addictions based on an increased understanding of […]

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Just watching the game ain’t enough: striatal fMRI reward responses to successes and failures in a video game during active and vicarious playing (2013)

Front Hum Neurosci. 2013 Jun 13;7:278. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00278. Kätsyri J, Hari R, Ravaja N, Nummenmaa L. Source Department of Media Technology, Aalto University School of Science Espoo, Finland ; School of Business, Aalto University Helsinki, Finland. Abstract Although the multimodal stimulation provided by modern audiovisual video games is pleasing by itself, the rewarding nature of […]

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