COMMENTS: This is the best article covering the August, 2011 release of The American Society of Addiction Medicine’s new definition of addiction. This article, A Radical New View of Addiction Stirs Scientific Storm originated from the website “The Fix.” The bolded sections below relate to concepts discussed here on YBOP.
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Am J Addict. 2009 Nov-Dec;18(6):439-51.
Danielle Barry, Ph.D., Megan Clarke, Ed.M., and Nancy M. Petry, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut
Address correspondence to Dr. Barry, Calhoun Cardiovascular Center-Behavioral Health (MC 3944), University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030-3944, Phone: 860-679-6664, Fax: 860-679-1312, Email: [email protected]
Comments: fMRI scans find abnormalities in the brains of those with Internet Addiction Disorder.
Chin Med J (Engl). 2010 Jul;123(14):1904-8.
Liu J, Gao XP, Osunde I, Li X, Zhou SK, Zheng HR, Li LJ.
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COMMENTS: The sweeping new ASAM “definition of addiction” (August 2011) ends the debate over the existence behavioral addictions, including sex and porn addiction. This new definition of addiction, which includes behavioral addictions, such as food, gambling and sex, ASAM unequivocally states behavioral addictions involve similar brain alterations and neural pathways as do drug addictions. We […]
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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This section contains a few selected research papers on behavioral addictions. A common argument against the existence of porn addiction is that it can’t be an real addiction because it’s not a drug.
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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 […]
Read More… from Ominous News for Porn Users: Internet Addiction Atrophies Brains (2011)
Full Study: Dissecting components of reward: ‘liking’, ‘wanting’, and learning
Curr Opin Pharmacol. 2009 February; 9(1): 65–73.
Published online 2009 January 21. doi: 10.1016/j.coph.2008.12.014.
Kent C Berridge, Terry E Robinson, and J Wayne Aldridge
Address Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109-1043, USA
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Read More… from Dissecting Components of Reward: Liking, Wanting, and Learning (2010)
COMMENTS: This study clearly shows that those with Internet addiction develop brain abnormalities that parallel those found in substance abusers. Researchers found a 10-20% reduction in frontal cortex gray matter in adolescents with Internet addiction. Hypofrontality is the common term for this change in brain structure. It is a key marker for all addiction processes. If this can happen with Internet addiction, what occurs when Internet porn is added to the mix?
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Read More… from Microstructure Abnormalities in Adolescents with Internet Addiction Disorder. (2011)
Tools to measure porn’s effects on the brain are here. The debate about widespread use of Internet porn tends to revolve around social concerns and conflicting surveys. Is today’s porn improving marriages? Causing erectile dysfunction leading to unsafe sex? Simply enabling people to meet normal sexual needs more conveniently? Inflating cravings for novelty and extreme sexual […]