Neuroscience. 2010 August 11; 169(1): 182–194. Published online 2010 May 7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.04.056 Friedbert Weiss,Loren H. Parsons,Gery Schulteis,Petri Hyytiä,Marge T. Lorang,Floyd E. Bloom, andGeorge F. Koob + Author Affiliations 1 Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037 Next Section Abstract Basal forebrain dopamine (DA) and 5-HT neurotransmission has been implicated […]
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A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays; Nofap and Life This is a selection of my thoughts after having tried nofap for 3 months. Not a story as such, just some general points you may find interesting. The focus is on how nofap alters all areas of life. To start off with, here are my vital statistics. […]
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Things That Help Me (and may help you) Since I’ve joined this community I’ve relapsed several times but I thought I might write a post to everyone to share some tactics that have helped me through this whole process: Setting r/NoFap as my home page– this helps curb my impulse to immediately jump on a […]
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FULL STUDY – Am J Psychiatry 158:1558-1567, October 2001 © 2001 American Psychiatric Association Sanjay J. Mathew, M.D., Jeremy D. Coplan, M.D., and Jack M. Gorman, M.D. Abstract OBJECTIVE: The authors critically surveyed several preclinical and clinical neurobiological models of social anxiety disorder. METHOD: The authors reviewed the recent literature regarding three animal models […]
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J Nucl Med May 2008 vol. 49 no. 5 757-763 Nic J. van der Wee1, J. Frederieke van Veen1, Henk Stevens2, Irene M. van Vliet1, Peter P. van Rijk2 and Herman G. Westenberg1 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Psychiatry, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; and 2Department of Nuclear […]
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Jeannine Stamatakis, instructor at several colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area, responds in Scientific American: There is no denying the high you feel after a run in the park or a swim at the beach. Exercise not only boosts your physical health–as one can easily see by watching a marathon or a boxing match–but […]
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Digital content is designed to be addictive – like tobacco or fast food. So let’s be honest about which services are the doughnuts ‘Parents will know that taking an iPad away from a toddler is not something you undertake lightly.’ Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/D Legakis Photography/Athena I like the internet. I use it a lot. In […]
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INITIAL POST I’ve fought ED for the last 4 years or so. I had a long-distance girlfriend for the majority of that time, and PMO was overwhelmingly my main sexual outlet. Over that period, I became the textbook example of how porn can poison the mind and body of an otherwise incredibly healthy 20-some-odd year […]
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I found the “Rebooting” information at YBOP through a random search one day and it has changed my life in ways I never thought possible. I watched the series of vids and the brain-chemistry explanation at YBOP and this was the turning point and it gave me the tools of understanding to help to fight […]
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100 days zero pornography, zero masturbation, zero orgasm. I learned a great deal in the approximate year and a half of disbelief, denial, internal fighting, and consistent relapse battles it took to get here. 100 days was a big goal of mine. I was a bit of an extreme case having PMO’d multiple times per […]
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