Biol Psychol. 2013 Aug 6. pii: S0301-0511(13)00182-8. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.07.009. Dong G, Hu Y, Lin X, Lu Q. Source Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, Province, P.R.China. Electronic address: [email protected]. Abstract Internet addiction disorder (IAD) has raised widespread public health concern. However, the mechanism of Internet addiction remains unclear. In this study, we designed […]
Read More… from What makes Internet addicts continue playing online even when faced by severe negative consequences? Possible explanations from an fMRI study (2013)
I hit my 90 days over the past weekend. In short: No PMO was an unambiguous success. I’ll get into why in a bit, but first I’d like to recap the progress a bit. I came to this forum via YourBrainOnPorn.com as most of us had. I was right in the starting stages of beginning […]
Read More… from I continue this quest as a happier, outgoing, connected, joyful, driven, focused, centered and hopeful man.
Post – 45 Lies Your Mind Uses to Keep You Addicted From experience, I’ve learned the urges are easy to resist through the proper techniques and with practice. A key factor I’m sure many–both newcomers and older–are struggling with is the rationalization. The mind naturally tries to justify the urges for porn, sex, and masturbation, […]
Read More… from 45 Lies Your Mind Uses to Keep You Addicted
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2012 Jun;37(7):1729-37. doi: 10.1038/npp.2012.19. Epub 2012 Mar 7. Oei NY, Rombouts SA, Soeter RP, van Gerven JM, Both S. Source Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition-LIBC, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. [email protected] Abstract Dopaminergic medication influences conscious processing of rewarding stimuli, and is associated with impulsive-compulsive behaviors, such as hypersexuality. Previous studies have shown […]
Read More… from Dopamine modulates reward system activity during subconscious processing of sexual stimuli (2012)
Front Hum Neurosci. 2013 Jun 13;7:278. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00278. Kätsyri J, Hari R, Ravaja N, Nummenmaa L. Source Department of Media Technology, Aalto University School of Science Espoo, Finland ; School of Business, Aalto University Helsinki, Finland. Abstract Although the multimodal stimulation provided by modern audiovisual video games is pleasing by itself, the rewarding nature of […]
Read More… from Just watching the game ain’t enough: striatal fMRI reward responses to successes and failures in a video game during active and vicarious playing (2013)
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2013 Jul 19. pii: S0278-5846(13)00148-6. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2013.07.007. Dong G, Hu Y, Lin X. Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, P.R.China. Electronic address: [email protected]. Abstract Internet addiction disorder (IAD) has raised widespread public health concerns. In this study, we used a gambling task to simulate extreme win/lose situations […]
Read More… from Reward/punishment sensitivities among internet addicts: Implications for their addictive behaviors (2013)
First time rebooter. Went the distance without a single relapse. No PMO, MO, peaking, edging, etc. What follows is my blueprint for success. Personal story at the end. 9 Tips to 90 1) Research. Read all the articles from Your Brain On Porn. Read rebooting accounts here. Read success stories. Read studies. Then, when you’re […]
Read More… from 9 Tips to 90
First time rebooter. Went the distance without a single relapse. No PMO, MO, peeking, edging, etc. What follows is my blueprint for success. Personal story at the end. 9 Tips to 90 1) Research. Read all the articles from Your Brain On Porn. Read rebooting accounts here. Read success stories. Read studies. Then, when you’re […]
Read More… from Age 25 – ED cured. No more depression, anxiety, lethargy. More focus & drive
LINK TO STUDY Abstract Background The issue of whether other animals have internally felt experiences has vexed animal behavioral science since its inception. Although most investigators remain agnostic on such contentious issues, there is now abundant experimental evidence indicating that all mammals have negatively and positively-valenced emotional networks concentrated in homologous brain regions that mediate […]
Read More… from Cross-Species Affective Neuroscience Decoding of the Primal Affective Experiences of Humans and Related Animals (2011) – PANSKEPP
Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 Jan 1. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol. 2013 Jan; 48(1): 1–19. Published online 2012 Nov 23. doi: 10.3109/10409238.2012.735642 PMCID: PMC3557663 NIHMSID: NIHMS411086 Dardo Tomasi*,1 and Nora D. Volkow1,2 Abstract Neuroimaging techniques are starting to reveal significant overlap in the brain circuitry underlying addiction and […]
Read More… from Striatocortical Pathway Dysfunction in Addiction And Obesity: Differences and Similarities (2013) Nora Volkow