Random access to palatable food stimulates similar addiction-like responses as a fixed schedule, but only a fixed schedule elicits anticipatory activation (2020)

Sci Rep. 2019 Dec 3;9(1):18223. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-54540-0. Muñoz-Escobar G1, Guerrero-Vargas NN1, Escobar C2. Abstract Restricted intermittent food access to palatable food (PF) induces addiction-like behaviors and plastic changes in corticolimbic brain areas. Intermittent access protocols normally schedule PF to a fixed time, enabling animals to predict the arrival of PF. Because outside the laboratory the […]

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What We Know About Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (2020)

Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2020 Mar/Apr;28(2):107-112. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000247. Chen A1, Mari S, Grech S, Levitt J. Abstract The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines internet gaming disorder without differentiating games from their respective genres, such as first-person shooter versus real-time strategy versus online gaming. Our review of the literature on […]

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Motivational pathways underlying the onset and maintenance of viewing child pornography on the Internet (2020)

YBOP COMMENTS: New study reports large percentage of child porn (CP) users have no sexual interest in children. It was only after years of viewing adult porn, resulting in habituation to new genre after new genre, that porn users eventually sought more extreme material and genres, eventually escalating into CP. Researchers point to the nature […]

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Erectile Dysfunction: A Review of Comprehensive Treatment Options for Optimal Outcome (2019)

February 16, 2019 Source: Journal of Restorative Medicine, Volume 8, Number 1, 16 February 2019 Author: Retzler, Kathryn ABSTRACT Erectile dysfunction (ED) is common with aging. Formerly ED treatment was offered mainly by urologists, but the approval and widespread use of phosphodiesterase inhibitors has enabled primary care clinicians to provide targeted ED treatment. Although large, […]

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Age 29 – I went from vanilla stuff to become addicted to transsexual porn, cross-dressing & acting out. But NOW I can say I’m free.

First 30 days free in almost 1 1/2 [years]. Guys I was so confident that I was gonna make it through this I actually wrote this on day 22. Facts! A little background on my addiction Porn for me was an escape from my reality it helped me cope with things I didn’t accept in […]

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Positive Response of Compulsive Sexual Behavior to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (2020)

Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2020 Jan 9;22(1). pii: 19l02469. doi: 10.4088/PCC.19l02469. Blum AW1, Grant JE2,1. PMID: 31930785 DOI: 10.4088/PCC.19l02469 Compulsive sexual behavior (CSB) is a disabling disorder, resulting in psychosocial impairment, financial and family problems, and elevated rates of sexually transmitted infections. Current treatments for CSB lack a strong evidence base and to complicate […]

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“Porn wars get personal in No Nut November”, by Diana Davison (The Post Millennial)

By Diana Davison (November 21, 2019) LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE In No Nut November, the question “To fap or not to fap?” has become fraught with legal danger. This whimsical internet challenge has grown in popularity over the years alongside the scientific battle over whether or not pornography can become addictive. By mid-November, those would-be […]

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