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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Cross-Species Affective Neuroscience Decoding of the Primal Affective Experiences of Humans and Related Animals (2011) – PANSKEPP

LINK TO STUDY Abstract Background The issue of whether other animals have internally felt experiences has vexed animal behavioral science since its inception. Although most investigators remain agnostic on such contentious issues, there is now abundant experimental evidence indicating that all mammals have negatively and positively-valenced emotional networks concentrated in homologous brain regions that mediate […]

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Hello, I’ve been reading and writing on this reddit for quite some time now and I have finally achieved my first NoFap goal which was to go 100 days without fapping or porn. I am not a great writer like some of you are and this report is really long (and not very funny I […]

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65,000+ Reddit users flock to forum founded by atheist to quit pornography, masturbation

July 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com by John Jalsevac) – They’re called “fapstronauts”: men and women who, for whatever reason, have signed up to take the “ultimate challenge” and conquer the urge to masturbate (“fap” in Internet slang) and/or use porn, whether it be for a certain, set period of time, or permanently. And joining their ranks […]

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On the nature of extraversion: variation in conditioned contextual activation of dopamine-facilitated affective, cognitive, and motor processes (2013)

  Richard A. Depue* and Yu Fu   Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA   Research supports an association between extraversion and dopamine (DA) functioning. DA facilitates incentive motivation and the conditioning and incentive encoding of contexts that predict reward. Therefore, we assessed whether extraversion is related to the efficacy of acquiring conditioned contextual […]

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