Front Behav Neurosci. 2016; 10: 173. Published online 2016 Sep 12. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00173 PMCID: PMC5018519 Paulo E. Carneiro de Oliveira,1 Rodrigo M. Leão,1 Paula C. Bianchi,1,2 Marcelo T. Marin,1,2 Cleopatra da Silva Planeta,1,2 and Fábio C. Cruz1,* Abstract While clinical and pre-clinical evidence suggests that adolescence is a risk period for the development of addiction, […]
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Update: Studies Finding Escalation (and Habituation) in Porn Users YBOP FAQ: Is my fetish porn-induced? It’s time to distinguish ‘sexual orientation’ from reversible ‘sexual tastes’ “The bulk of scientific evidence currently favors the view that the origins for most sexual desires are not cultural but innate.” —Leon F. Seltzer Such statements mislead people that all […]
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Author/s: Gary Wilson DOI: 10.15805/addicta.2016.3.0107 Year: 2016 Vol: 3 Number: 2 LINK TO ABSTRACT LINK TO PDF OF FULL PAPER Abstract There’s growing evidence that today’s streaming pornography videos are sui generis, with unique properties such as inexhaustible sexual novelty at a swipe, effortless escalation to more extreme material, and accessibility by youthful viewers, and […]
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Diabetes Care. 2013 Feb; 36(2): 394–402. Published online 2013 Jan 17. doi: 10.2337/dc12-1112 PMCID: PMC3554293 Association with insulin levels Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PHD,1,2 Rajita Sinha, PHD,3,4,5 Cheryl Lacadie, BS,6 Dana M. Small, PHD,3,7 Robert S. Sherwin, MD,1 and Marc N. Potenza, MD, PHD3,4,5 Abstract OBJECTIVE Obesity is associated with alterations in corticolimbic-striatal brain regions […]
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J Addict Med. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Mar 16. J Addict Med. 2009 Mar; 3(1): 33–41. doi: 10.1097/ADM.0b013e31819aa621 PMCID: PMC4361030 NIHMSID: NIHMS669567 Bartley G. Hoebel, PhD, Nicole M. Avena, PhD, Miriam E. Bocarsly, BA, and Pedro Rada, MD Abstract The distinction between natural addiction and drug addiction is interesting from many points of […]
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Tobias Hoch , Silke Kreitz , Simone Gaffling , Monika Pischetsrieder & Andreas Hess Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 10041 (2015) doi:10.1038/srep10041 Feeding behaviour Obesity AbstrThe snack food potato chips induces food intake in ad libitum fed rats, which is associated with modulation of the brain reward system and other circuits. Here, we show that food intake […]
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Psychopharmacology (Berl). Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 Jun 5. Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2007 Nov; 194(4): 537–544. Published online 2007 Jul 13. doi: 10.1007/s00213-007-0868-y PMCID: PMC2881196 NIHMSID: NIHMS205439 Jeffrey W. Grimm, Meghan Manaois, Dan Osincup, Barbara Wells, and Carl Buse Abstract Rationale Cue-induced craving precedes drug relapse and contributes to […]
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Yale J Biol Med. 2014 Jun; 87(2): 99–112. Published online 2014 Jun 6. PMCID: PMC4031802 Focus: Obesity Elizabeth A. Genné-Bacon Abstract Obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome are growing worldwide health concerns, yet their causes are not fully understood. Research into the etiology of the obesity epidemic is highly influenced by our understanding of the evolutionary […]
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