Dopamine Transporter and Reward Anticipation in a Dimensional Perspective: A Multimodal Brain Imaging Study (2017)

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2017 Aug 22. doi: 10.1038/npp.2017.183. Dubol M1,2, Trichard C1,2,3, Leroy C1,2,4, Sandu AL1,2,5, Rahim M6,7, Granger B1,2,8, Tzavara ET1,2,8,9, Karila L1,2,10, Martinot JL1,2, Artiges E1,2,11. Abstract Dopamine function and reward processing are highly interrelated and involve common brain regions afferent to the Nucleus Accumbens, within the mesolimbic pathway. While dopamine function and reward system […]

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Inclusion of gaming disorder criteria in ICD-11: A clinical perspective in favor (2017)

J Behav Addict. 2017 Aug 17:1-3. doi: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.049. Higuchi S1, Nakayama H1, Mihara S1, Maezono M1, Kitayuguchi T1, Hashimoto T1. ABSTRACT Data from a specialist treatment facility for Internet addiction (IA) in Japan showed that (a) the vast majority of treatment seekers are addicted to online games, (b) their symptoms are often quite severe, and […]

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Exploring the Relationship Between Erotic Disruption During the Latency Period and the Use of Sexually Explicit Material, Online Sexual Behaviors, and Sexual Dysfunctions in Young Adulthood (2009)

COMMENTS: Study examined correlations between current porn use (sexually explicit material – SEM) and sexual dysfunctions, and porn use during “latency period” (ages 6-12) and sexual dysfunctions. The average age of participants was 22. While current porn use correlated with sexual dysfunctions, porn use during latency (ages 6-12) had an even stronger correlation with sexual […]

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No Effect of Commercial Cognitive Training on Brain Activity, Choice Behavior, or Cognitive Performance (2017)

J Neurosci. 2017 Aug 2;37(31):7390-7402. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2832-16.2017. Kable JW1, Caulfield MK2, Falcone M3, McConnell M2, Bernardo L3, Parthasarathi T2, Cooper N2, Ashare R3, Audrain-McGovern J3, Hornik R4, Diefenbach P5, Lee FJ5, Lerman C3. Abstract Increased preference for immediate over delayed rewards and for risky over certain rewards has been associated with unhealthy behavioral choices. Motivated […]

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(CAUSE) Impact of video games on plasticity of the hippocampus (2017)

Mol Psychiatry. 2017 Aug 8. doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.155. West GL1, Konishi K2, Diarra M1, Benady-Chorney J2, Drisdelle BL1, Dahmani L2, Sodums DJ2, Lepore F1, Jolicoeur P1, Bohbot VD2. Abstract The hippocampus is critical to healthy cognition, yet results in the current study show that action video game players have reduced grey matter within the hippocampus. A […]

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Extracting the Values of Resting-state Functional Connectivity that Correlate with a Tendency of Internet Addiction (2017)

Transactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering Vol. 55 (2017) No. 1 p. 39-44 http://doi.org/10.11239/jsmbe.55.39 Shun IZAWA1), Kenta TACHIKAWA1), Yumie ONO2), Hiroshi KOBAYASHI3), Shinya KURIKI3), Atsushi ISHIYAMA1) 1) Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University 2) School of Science and Technology, Meiji University 3) School of Information Environment, Tokyo Denki Keywords: […]

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The best way to describe it is I feel reborn, that’s what it’s like. A new me.

I’ve stepped out of the spotlight updating my NoFap journey for the past couple of months, I thought I’d make a post dedicated to sharing my 6 month achievement. Here it is. From the beginning… Prior to NoFap, I suffered with painful depressive episodes in partnership with social anxiety. Mentally, I was not well, and […]

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Altered Brain Activities Associated with Craving and Cue Reactivity in People with Internet Gaming Disorder: Evidence from the Comparison with Recreational Internet Game Users (2017)

Front Psychol. 2017; 8: 1150. Published online 2017 Jul 11. doi:  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01150 PMCID: PMC5504237 Lingxiao Wang,1,2,3 Lingdan Wu,4 Yifan Wang,1 Hui Li,1 Xiaoyue Liu,1 Xiaoxia Du,5 and Guangheng Dong1,6,* Abstract Although the neural substrates of cue reactivity in Internet gaming disorder (IGD) have been examined in previous studies, most of these studies focused on the […]

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