Comments: Disorganized white matter is a marker for drug addiction. Studies on Internet addiction have found disorganized white matter. Psychiatry Res. 2011 Dec 30;194(3):340-6. Epub 2011 Nov 10. Joutsa J, Saunavaara J, Parkkola R, Niemelä S, Kaasinen V. Source Department of Neurology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, Finland. [email protected] […]
Guys hi…..This is my first blog to this site and hopefully first after I recovered. Today I completed my 8 weeks with one relapse to masturbation. My brief history: I am healthy 28-year old male. I always had high sex drive. I was never involved in too much porn/ For me it was always a […]
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Comments: A more recent study confirming androgen receptor decline in sexually exhausted rats. The study found receptors returning to normal by 72 hours, but full sexual potency takes 15 days to fully return. Other factors must be involved in sexual inhibition of sexual behavior for 15 days Romano-Torres M, Phillips-Farfán BV, Chavira R, Rodríguez-Manzo G, […]
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Comments: First study to show direct correlation between decreased frontal cortex gray matter (hypofrontality) and reward deficiency (desensitization) Gray matter in brains control center linked to ability to process reward November 29th, 2011 in Neuroscience The more gray matter you have in the decision-making, thought-processing part of your brain, the better your ability to evaluate […]
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Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 2002 Apr;13(2):255-9. Kjaer TW, Bertelsen C, Piccini P, Brooks D, Alving J, Lou HC. Source John F. Kennedy Institute, Gl. Landevej 7, 2600, Glostrup, Denmark. [email protected] Abstract This is the first in vivo demonstration of an association between endogenous neurotransmitter release and conscious experience. Using 11C-raclopride PET we demonstrated increased […]
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COMMENTS: Unlike most studies, this one included both controls and Internet addicts in remission. Researchers found that subjects with Internet addiction presented with a different activation pattern than controls and from former Internet addicts. Addicts brain differed from controls, and recovery lead to reversal of addiction-related brain changes. Addict Biol. 2011 Oct 26. doi: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2011.00405.x. Ko […]
Comments: Food addiction leading to obesity causes several brain changes that mimic drug addiction. One change involves an increase in white matter (myelin) in the striatum (a portion of the reward circuitry). Dieting decreases the white matter, indicating that this change is reversible.
Published online before print May 29, 2007, doi: 10.1210/jc.2006-2495 The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism August 1, 2007 vol. 92 no. 8 3278-3284
Lauri T. Haltia, Antti Viljanen, Riitta Parkkola, Nina Kemppainen, Juha O. Rinne, Pirjo Nuutila and Valtteri Kaasinen
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By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS, New York Times, October 13, 2011
Scientific discoveries can be serendipitous, and so it was when Jay L. Alberts, then a Parkinson’s disease researcher at Emory University in Atlanta, mounted a tandem bike with Cathy Frazier, a Parkinson’s patient. The two were riding the 2003 RAGBRAI bicycle tour across Iowa, hoping to raise awareness of the neurodegenerative disease and “show people with Parkinson’s that you don’t have to sit back and let the disease take over your life,” Dr. Alberts said.
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Researchers have long known that regular exercise increases the number of organelles called mitochondria in muscle cells. Since mitochondria are responsible for generating energy, this numerical boost is thought to underlie many of the positive physical effects of exercise, such as increased strength or endurance. Exercise also has a number of positive mental effects, such […]
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