Front Behav Neurosci. 2014; 8: 83. Published online 2014 Mar 25. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00083 PMCID: PMC3971166 Yansong Li,1,2,* Guillaume Sescousse,1,† and Jean-Claude Dreher1,2 Abstract Pathological gambling is a behavioral addiction characterized by a chronic failure to resist the urge to gamble. It shares many similarities with drug addiction. Glucocorticoid hormones including cortisol are thought to play […]
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30 year-old male. Hard-mode. Single. Benefits Decreased social anxiety – Social anxiety was a daily torment pre-NoFap. Now, going up and talking to people is much easier. I’ve been drinking less since starting NoFap and I think it’s because I don’t need the Dutch courage of alcohol as much as I did before Social skills […]
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April 11, 2017 by David Orenstein A heartbreaking phenomenon of addiction is that just a brief stressful episode can trigger relapse. In a detailed new cocaine addiction study conducted in rat models, which closely parallel human addictive behavior, scientists have identified what appears to be taking place in the mammalian brain to make that happen […]
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Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2017; 13: 51–60. Published online 2016 Dec 23. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S118818 PMCID: PMC5207471 Gabriel C Quintero Abstract The present review is an overview of previous experimental work on biopsychological aspects of gambling disorder. It includes the topics 1) gambling disorder from the neuroimaging and electroencephalography (EEG) perspective, 2) cognitive, executive functioning, and neuropsychological […]
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Interesting findings from the full study: Porn use in 18-year old males was almost universal, with the study dividing users into 3 groups – frequent (daily), average (weekly or more) and infrequent: Nearly all respondents (98%) had watched pornography, although to different extents. Eleven percent were found to be frequent users, 69 percent average users, […]
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UPDATE: June 11, 2015: A peer-reviewed critique of Prause & Pfaus 2015, by Richard A. Isenberg MD UPDATE: June, 2015: A critique of the Prause & Pfaus response to Richard Isenberg’s letter UPDATE: August 5, 2016: Peer-reviewed paper by US Navy doctors – Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports (2016) […]
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Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Mar 17;14(3). pii: E311. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14030311. Kuss DJ1, Griffiths MD2. Abstract Online social networking sites (SNSs) have gained increasing popularity in the last decade, with individuals engaging in SNSs to connect with others who share similar interests. The perceived need to be online may result in compulsive use […]
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Volume 11, Issue 12, December 01, 2016, pp. 7-9 Anindita Chakraborty, M.D. View Author and Article Information Published online: March 10, 2017 | http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2016.111203 As of July 2016, Facebook had more than 1.71 billion active users per month, with 1.1 billion log-ins every day (1). It has been estimated that the average […]
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István Tóth-Király, Ágnes Zsila, Mark D. Griffiths, Zsolt Demetrovics & Gábor Orosz Pages 1-12 | Published online: 06 Mar 2017 The Journal of Sex Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2017.1291798 Abstract To date, no short scale exists with strong psychometric properties that can assess problematic pornography consumption based on an overarching theoretical background. The goal of the present study […]
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I’m happy to finally say that I’m 90 days free from PMO. There has been a lot of internal change in my life as well as challenges along the way but the momentum is strong now and I don’t think I will go back to PMO any time soon if not ever. also important to […]
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