Behav Brain Funct.2012 Aug 18;8(1):41. Dong G, Huang J, Du X. Abstract Backgrounds. Internet gaming addiction (IGA), as a subtype of internet addiction disorder, is rapidly becoming a prevalent mental health concern around the world. The neurobiological underpinnings of IGA should be studied to unravel the potential heterogeneity of IGA. This study investigated the brain […]
Wikipedia: In psychology, the Stroop effect is a demonstration of the reaction time of a task. When the name of a color (e.g., “blue,” “green,” or “red”) is printed in a color not denoted by the name (e.g., the word “red” printed in blue ink instead of red ink), naming the color of the word […]
Sex Addiction Deniers: What Makes Them So Mad? By Linda Hatch, PhD The mere idea of “sex addiction” gets a lot of people angry. I’m talking here about the writers who rail about the “myth” of sexual addiction and who argue that the whole idea of sex addiction is just a cop-out for the addict […]
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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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Six months ago, researchers at UCLA published a study that showed using a specific type of yoga to engage in a brief, simple daily meditation reduced the stress levels of people who care for those stricken by Alzheimer’s and dementia. Now they know why. As previously reported, practicing a certain form of chanting yogic meditation […]
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July 24th, 2012 in Psychology & Psychiatry Six months ago, researchers at UCLA published a study that showed using a specific type of yoga to engage in a brief, simple daily meditation reduced the stress levels of people who care for those stricken by Alzheimer’s and dementia. Now they know why. As previously reported, practicing […]
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COMMENTS: Another addiction review describing the mechanisms of addiction by two of the worlds leading experts. Note that Nora Volkow is the head of NIDA, and has stated that behavioral addictions involve the same fundamental mechanisms and brain changes as drug addictions. FULL STUDY – Neuropsychopharmacology. 2010 January; 35(1): 217–238. Published online 2009 August 26. […]
Are Anxiety Disorders All In The Mind? ScienceDaily (May 12, 2008) — Using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in The Netherlands were able to detect biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia), providing evidence of a long-suspected biological cause for the dysfunction. The study […]
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How gadgets and the internet are turning us into a nation of emotional basket cases By John Naish PUBLISHED: 18:16 EST, 18 July 2012 | UPDATED: 19:13 EST, 18 July 2012 Can Facebook turn you into a narcissist? Are smartphones creating a nation of panicky control freaks? Do computer games make us develop the attention […]
Note that this therapist believes HOCD is one the most treatable mental conditions. By Steven Phillipson, Ph.D. Center for Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy (LINK to article) The television program is “Seinfeld.” The setting is a professional office of a masseuse. One of the main characters, George Costanza, has agreed to receive the first professional massage of his […]