Intro I decided to try this out after stumbling upon this when googling what the effects of frequent porn/masturbation were. I have watched and masturbated to porn usually every day since I was 13, and I am 28 now. I have gone one month without both in the past, but it was not to reset […]
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J Addict Med. 2009 March; 3(1): 8–18.
doi: 10.1097/ADM.0b013e31819a86f7
Gene-Jack Wang, MD, Nora D. Volkow, MD, Panayotis K. Thanos, PhD, and Joanna S. Fowler, PhD
FULL STUDY: Imaging of Brain Dopamine Pathways: Implications for Understanding Obesity
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Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Feb;1187:294-315.
Frascella J, Potenza MN, Brown LL, Childress AR.
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Division of Clinical Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
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Published on July 27, 2011 by Sian Beilock, Ph.D.
What do cheating on your diet, overreacting to a tantrum thrown by your child, and having a drink even though you decided to stop drinking have in common? They all involve failures of self-control.
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Here’s a dialog between a forum member and Gary, which forum members found really helpful:
What is the mechanism by which P without M and O during a reboot can cause damage? The brain is not associating that P use with the positive sensations of sexual release that come with M and O
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(Medical Xpress) — Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control group. This suggested that meditation may indeed be good for all of us since, alas, our brains shrink naturally with age.
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Comments: First thing to note from this study is that the “rush or high” of a drug, may not correlate to the addictiveness. This is an important concept as one argument against the existence of porn addiction (or food addictions) is that cannot match the dopamine levels of meth or cocaine. The levels of dopamine induced by nicotine are below those induced by sexualcstimulation and orgasm, yet it is one of the most addictive substances
by Jameson 08.
May 3, 2011.
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Front Hum Neurosci. 2011; 5: 58.
Published online 2011 June 10. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00058
PMCID: PMC3114193
Copyright© 2011 Horstmann, Busse, Mathar, Müller, Lepsien, Schlögl, Kabisch, Kratzsch, Neumann, Stumvoll, Villringer and Pleger.
Annette Horstmann,1,2* Franziska P. Busse,3 David Mathar,1,2 Karsten Müller,1 Jöran Lepsien,1 Haiko Schlögl,3 Stefan Kabisch,3 Jürgen Kratzsch,4 Jane Neumann,1,2 Michael Stumvoll,2,3 Arno Villringer,1,2,5,6 and Burkhard Pleger1,2,5,6
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UPDATES: Many studies have been published since this article was written. See this List of Internet & Video Game Brain Studies. Gaming disorder is defined in the draft 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) The world’s most widely used medical diagnostic manual, The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), contains a new diagnosis […]
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(CNN) — When Hilarie Cash arrives home from work in the evening, she has a choice: She can go outside and tend to her garden or she can hop on her laptop.
The lilacs really need weeding. The computer, on the other hand, can wait, as her work is done for the day.
Despite this, Cash feels drawn to the computer, as if it’s a magnet pulling her in. Maybe there’s an e-mail from a friend awaiting her, or a funny tweet, or a new picture posted on Facebook.
“I find it extremely difficult to walk away,” Cash says. “It’s so hard to tell myself, ‘Don’t do it. Go do the gardening.’ ”
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