COMMENTS: A unique study. It follows first year university students to ascertain what percentage develop Internet addiction, and what risk factors may be in play. The unique aspect is that the research subjects had not used the Internet prior to enrolling in college. Hard to believe. After only one year of school, a small percentage were classified […]
FULL STUDY The Journal of Neuroscience, 6 September 2006, 26(36): 9196-9204; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1124-06.2006 Peter Olausson1, J. David Jentsch2, Natalie Tronson1, Rachel L. Neve3, Eric J. Nestler4, and Jane R. Taylor1 1.Correspondence should be addressed to Jane R. Taylor, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Molecular Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Ribicoff Research Facilities, Connecticut Mental […]
FULL STUDY HERE J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2011 March; 36(2): 78–86. doi: 10.1503/jpn.100057 PMCID: PMC3044191 Copyright © 2011 Canadian Medical Association Olivia Dean, BSc, PhD, Frank Giorlando, MBBS, BMedSc, and Michael Berk, MBBCh, MMed(Psych), PhD Dean, Berk — Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville; Dean, Giorlando, Berk — Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, Barwon Health, University […]
COMMENTS: Eric Nestler lays out much of the detail about DeltaFosB and addiction. (More has since been discovered.) Simply put, DeltaFosB rises in the reward circuit in response to chronic consumption of drugs of abuse and certain natural rewards. Its evolutionary purpose is to have you get it while the getting is good (food and sex) […]
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COMMENTS: As later studies will reveal DeltaFosB is the common molecular switch for both drug and behavioral addictions. It’s a transcription factor which means it affects what genes are turned on or off. As stated elsewhere, addictive drugs only hijack normal mechanisms. That’s why it’s silly to suggest that behavioral addictions cannot exist. FULL STUDY […]
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Mol Interv. 2010 Aug;10(4):219-30. Maze I, Russo SJ. Source Fishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Abstract Drug addiction is marked by long-lasting changes in behavior that result, in part, from altered patterns of gene expression within limbic forebrain regions, such as the nucleus accumbens […]
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This scientist doesn’t speak in terms of addiction-related changes, but he describes how learning changes the brain. Addiction is pathological learning. This exchange appeared on Reddit.com under “AskScience.” Why does abstaining from porn/masturbation/orgasm temporarily decrease as opposed to increase libido? In /r/nofap there’s a move to ‘reboot’ one’s overstimulated brain to restore the sensitivity to […]
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Day 38 I would say i started masturbating since I was 12 and it is so unfortunate that i started off to tv porn. Wow what a great discovery I thought I made finding porn whilst flipping through cable channels. Ever since then I never looked back. Used to masturbate at least once a day […]
From this Reddit NoFap post I’ve been reading a bunch of peoples posts and commenting some on this r/nofap for 3 weeks now. Lately, I feel, posts come from a more negative perspective which really bugs me. I would like to change that in the form of this post. Also, I would like to give […]
Day 33 I’m from Germany. I am 32 and what you would probably call a very good looking guy. I’m married to a beautiful woman and I work in the central department of a world famous company. Before that I had finished high school with a A+ degree (called 1,0 Abitur in Germany) and then […]