Behav Sci (Basel). 2015 Dec 15;5(4):602-25. doi: 10.3390/bs5040602. Groves CL1, Gentile D2, Tapscott RL3, Lynch PJ4. LINK TO FULL STUDY Abstract Three studies assessed the construct of pathological video game use and tested its predictive validity. Replicating previous research, Study 1 produced evidence of convergent validity in 8th and 9th graders (N = 607) classified […]
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Addict Biol. 2015 Dec 22. doi: 10.1111/adb.12347. Han DH1, Kim SM1, Bae S2, Renshaw PF3, Anderson JS4. Abstract Prolonged Internet video game play may have multiple and complex effects on human cognition and brain development in both negative and positive ways. There is not currently a consensus on the principle effects of video game play […]
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I started Nofap in hopes of improving my social anxiety. It wasn’t until a couple weeks down the line that I realized that I didn’t just have social anxiety. I had anxiety alone. It was then that I realized that anxiety isn’t compartmentalized. If you have anxiety in social situations, it’s likely that you have […]
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COMMENTS: This Korean fMRI study replicates other brain studies on porn users. Like the Cambridge University studies it found cue-induced brain activation patterns in sex addicts which mirrored the patterns of drug addicts. In line with several German studies it found alterations in the prefrontal cortex which match the changes observed in drug addicts. While […]
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100 Days! (2nd time around!)- what have I learned? 10 Principles of Recovery Below are several principles that have been in place for me currently and during my longest periods of abstinence. For those times when we get lost in the forest, and we need to find our way, use these principles (or those that […]
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COMMENTS: While this paper is only a brief summation, it contains a few key observations on emerging science. For example, it states that both Prause et al., 2015 and Kuhn & Gallinat, 2014 report a similar finding: greater porn use correlating with greater habituation to porn. Both studies reported lower brain activation in response to […]
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Link to original paper – “Neuroscience of Internet Pornography Addiction: A Review and Update” (2015) Numerous other peer-reviewed papers agree that Prause et al., 2015 supports the porn addiction model: Peer-reviewed critiques of Prause et al., 2015 Excerpt critiquing Prause et al., 2015 (citation 309) Another EEG study involving three of the same authors was […]
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Psychol Sci. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2013 Sep 23. Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sci. 2012 Sep 1; 23(9): 984–993. Published online 2012 Jul 18. doi: 10.1177/0956797611435529 PMCID: PMC3779897 NIHMSID: NIHMS487528 Ross E. O’Hara,1 Frederick X. Gibbons,1 Meg Gerrard,2 Zhigang Li,3 and James D. Sargent4 Author information ► Copyright and […]
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BMC Psychiatry. 2011; 11: 144. Published online 2011 August 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-144 PMCID: PMC3176476 Copyright©2011 Achab et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Sophia Achab,1,2,3 Magali Nicolier,1 Frédéric Mauny,4,5 Julie Monnin,1,6 Benoit Trojak,7 Pierre Vandel,1,2 Daniel Sechter,1,2 Philip Gorwood,8,9 and Emmanuel Haffen1,2,6 1Clinical Psychiatry Department, Besançon University Hospital, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France 2EA 481 “Neurosciences Laboratory”- […]
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