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Experience, not childhood or genes, configures individual reward-circuit wiring “Intriguingly, the pleasure centre and the behaviour it guides are sculpted mostly by life experiences rather than by our genes. This challenges previous assumptions that dopamine function could be straightforwardly inherited.” —Paul Stokes, MD, PhD Our reward center (or circuitry) is shaped primarily by experience. This […]
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Porn-related HOCD may call for its own treatment protocol Intrusive worries that someone has become gay—although he (she) has been straight for years with no doubts—have gained the label HOCD, homosexual obsessive-compulsive disorder. More properly such worries would be called sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder because they also strike gay people who suddenly wonder if they […]
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2009 Apr;33(4):516-24. Andersen SL, Teicher MH. Source Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA. [email protected] Abstract Adverse life events are associated with a wide range of psychopathology, including an increased risk for substance abuse. In this review, we focus on the inter-relationship between exposure to adversity and […]
Dev Psychobiol. 2010 Apr;52(3):236-43. Spear LP, Varlinskaya EI. Source Department of Psychology, Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA. [email protected] Abstract Age-related patterns of sensitivity to appetitive and aversive stimuli seemingly have deep evolutionary roots, with marked developmental transformations seen during adolescence in a number […]
Ice Cream Brings Food Addiction Revelation Regular ice cream-eaters experience diminishing returns of pleasure, and seek ever-larger portions to compensate. It’s hard to recapture that first ice cream high By Fionna Agomuoh 02/23/12 Your favorite ice cream could easily get you hooked. New research shows that the brains of big ice cream-eaters go through processes […]
Brain Sci. 2012, 2(3), 347-374; doi:10.3390/brainsci2030347 Daria J. Kuss* and Mark D. Griffiths International Gaming Research Unit, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4BU, UK * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Received: 28 June 2012; in revised form: 24 August 2012 / Accepted: 28 August 2012 / Published: 5 September […]
Tertia D Purves-Tyson, David J Handelsman, Kay L Double, Samantha J Owens, Sonia Bustamante and Cynthia Shannon Weickert BMC Neuroscience 2012, 13:95 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-13-95 Published: 6 August 2012 Abstract Background Increased risk of schizophrenia in adolescent males indicates that a link between the development of dopamine-related psychopathology and testosterone-driven brain changes may exist. However, contradictions as […]
UPDATES on this American Association of Addiction Medicine announcement: An official diagnosis? The world’s most widely used medical diagnostic manual, The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), contains a new diagnosis suitable for porn addiction: “Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder.” Porn/sex addiction? This page lists 39 neuroscience-based studies (MRI, fMRI, EEG, neuropsychological, hormonal). They provide strong support […]
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Does Internet porn reveal our sexual desires—or alter them? Fellow “Psychology Today” blogger Leon F. Seltzer recently completed a herculean 12-part blog series on the subject of the Internet and human sexual desire (based on Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam’s A Billion Wicked Thoughts, 2011). In his final segment, he did an excellent job of […]
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