NoFappers say their brains have been warped by porn, at the expense of real relationships. It’s often said that porn helps drive technology. When the Super 8 projectors came out, porn flicks were among the first to be shown. VHS was able to stomp out competing systems like Betamax largely because it agreed to license pornography. […]
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I reached 50 days today and I therefore somehow felt obligated to say it out loud. Brain fog has passed away, feelings aren’t cluttered, sense of living in the moment more easy to achieve and overall I’m feeling healthy! Confidence is at my all time high, anxiety is extremely low and after a very long […]
J Vis Exp. 2015 Jan 20;(95). doi: 10.3791/52329. Tomas D1, Prijanto AH1, Burrows EL1, Hannan AJ1, Horne MK1, Aumann TD2. Abstract Long-lasting changes in the brain or ‘brain plasticity’ underlie adaptive behavior and brain repair following disease or injury. Furthermore, interactions with our environment can induce brain plasticity. Increasingly, research is trying to identify which […]
COMMENTS: Excessive sugar intake leads to the same brain changes as drug addiction: Greater D1 binding, along with lower D2 binding Neuroreport. 2001 Nov 16;12(16):3549-52. Colantuoni C1, Schwenker J, McCarthy J, Rada P, Ladenheim B, Cadet JL, Schwartz GJ, Moran TH, Hoebel BG. Abstract Palatable food stimulates neural systems implicated in drug dependence; thus sugar […]
by Jordan Gaines Lewis, The Conversation Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania – the “Chocolate Capital of the World” – doesn’t help either of us. But Andrew is braver than […]
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Andrology. 2014 May;2(3):379-85. doi: 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2014.00191.x. Epub 2014 Apr 7. Zhang P1, Liu J, Li G, Pan J, Li Z, Liu Q, Qin W, Dong M, Sun J, Huang X, Wu T, Chang D. Abstract Brain dysfunction in erectile dysfunction (ED) has been identified by multiple neuroimaging studies. A recent MRI study indicated grey matter alterations […]
Curr Neuropharmacol. 2011 Mar; 9(1): 63–67. doi: 10.2174/157015911795017218 Hisatsugu Miyata,a,* Michio Itasaka,b Naofumi Kimura,c and Kazuhiko Nakayamaa Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether brain reward function decreases […]
Front Psychiatry. 2014; 5: 79. Published online 2014 Jul 9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00079 PMCID: PMC4088186 Nicholas W. Gilpin1,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Addiction to drugs and alcohol is a dynamic and multi-faceted disease process in humans, with devastating health […]
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Brain. 2002 May;125(Pt 5):1014-23. Arnow BA1, Desmond JE, Banner LL, Glover GH, Solomon A, Polan ML, Lue TF, Atlas SW. Abstract Despite the brain’s central role in sexual function, little is known about relationships between brain activation and sexual response. In this study, we employed functional MRI (fMRI) to examine relationships between brain activation and […]
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So, here I am. A big 3 on my star, 90 days without using porn and a whole new person is using the computer at the moment. How do I feel? Rather normal and that’s exactly how I should feel. It was quite rough in the beginning while getting used to the physiological and mostly […]