Striatum processes reward differently in adolescents versus adults (2012)

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jan 31;109(5):1719-24. Epub 2012 Jan 17. Sturman DA, Moghaddam B. Source Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Abstract Adolescents often respond differently than adults to the same salient motivating contexts, such as peer interactions and pleasurable stimuli. Delineating the neural processing differences of […]

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Frontostriatal maturation predicts cognitive control failure to appetitive cues in adolescents (2011)

J Cogn Neurosci. 2011 Sep;23(9):2123-34. Epub 2010 Sep 7.   Somerville LH, Hare T, Casey BJ. Source Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, Box 140, New York, NY 10065, USA. [email protected] Abstract Adolescent risk-taking is a public health issue that increases the odds of poor lifetime outcomes. One factor […]

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The Impact of Internet Pornography on Adolescents: A Review of the Research (2012)

THE FULL STUDY Eric W. Owens, Richard J. Behun, Jill C. Manning, Rory C. Reid Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity Vol. 19, Iss. 1-2, 2012 Version of record first published: 09 Apr 2012 Abstract The recent proliferation of Internet-enabled technology has significantly changed the way adolescents encounter and consume sexually explicit material. Once confined to a […]

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Oxytocin, Fidelity and Sex (2012)

Can a guy keep himself faithful by jacking up oxytocin? “A study published Tuesday in the Journal of Neuroscience has uncovered a surprising new property of oxytocin, finding that when men in monogamous relationships got a sniff of the stuff, they subsequently put a little extra space between themselves and an attractive woman they’d just […]

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Cognitive Biases toward Internet Game-Related Pictures and Executive Deficits in Individuals with an Internet Game Addiction (2012)

PLoS One. 2012;7(11):e48961. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048961. Epub 2012 Nov 14.   Zhou Z, Yuan G, Yao J. Source Department of Psychology, Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, China. Abstract BACKGROUND: The cue-related go/no-go switching task provides an experimental approach to study individual’s flexibility in changing situations. Because Internet addiction disorder […]

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