Education & Porn

Education for kids about porn is vital, because streaming porn will be with us as long as the internet is around. However, educators must teach pupils how brain plasticity works. Too often one reads in the media that educators should focus on: distinguishing “good porn” from “bad porn,” or reducing the problem to “the need […]

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Dopamine signaling in food addiction: role of dopamine D2 receptors (2013)

BMB Rep. 2013 Nov; 46(11): 519–526. doi:  10.5483/BMBRep.2013.46.11.207 PMCID: PMC4133846 Ja-Hyun Baik* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Dopamine (DA) regulates emotional and motivational behavior through the mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway. Changes in DA signaling in mesolimbic neurotransmission […]

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Regulation of dopamine system responsivity and its adaptive and pathological response to stress (2015)

Pauline Belujon , Anthony A. Grace DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2516 Published 18 March 2015 Abstract Although, historically, the norepinephrine system has attracted the majority of attention in the study of the stress response, the dopamine system has also been consistently implicated. It has long been established that stress plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of psychiatric […]

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Modulation of the glutamatergic transmission by Dopamine: a focus on Parkinson, Huntington and Addiction diseases (2015)

Front Cell Neurosci. 2015; 9: 25. Published online 2015 Mar 2. doi:  10.3389/fncel.2015.00025 PMCID: PMC4345909 Fabrizio Gardoni1 and Camilla Bellone2,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Dopamine (DA) plays a major role in motor and cognitive functions as well as in reward processing by regulating glutamatergic inputs. […]

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