Abstract Environmental enrichment (EE) reduces drug and sucrose cue-reactivity in rats. In a previous study we reported that 1 month of EE (large cage, toys, and social cohorts) significantly reduced sucrose cue-reactivity. In the present study, we examined whether overnight (22 h) EE would be as effective. We also examined whether social enrichment (SE), enrichment […]
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Brain. 2013 Jan 31. Politis M, Loane C, Wu K, O’Sullivan SS, Woodhead Z, Kiferle L, Lawrence AD, Lees AJ, Piccini P. Source: Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK. Abstract Hypersexuality with compulsive sexual behaviour is a significant source of morbidity for patients with Parkinson’s […]
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UPDATES: Much has occurred since the Dr.OZ episode. See – Research confirms enormous rise in youthful ED. See this list articles by many experts who treat and recognize porn-induced ED – Porn-Induced ED in the media (experts) Porn and sexual problems? This list contains 26 studies linking porn use/porn addiction to sexual problems and lower […]
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Endocrinology. 2013 Mar; 154(3): 1225–1234. Published online 2013 Jan 31. doi: 10.1210/en.2012-2042 Margaret R. Bell and Cheryl L. Sisk Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Adolescent maturation of responses to social stimuli is essential for adult-typical sociosexual behavior. Naturally occurring developmental changes in male Syrian hamster responses […]
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TL;DR below, but this is worth reading. I have relapsed many times before. I have started nofap over and over again. But I finally made it this far, 40 days, and I’m going to stay on nofap for awhile, at least 3 months. So what changed for me this time that I was able to […]
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doi: 10.1124/pr.111.004515 Pharmacological Reviews December 2011 vol. 63 no. 4 811-859 K.-E. Andersson Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina Martin C. Michel, ASSOCIATE EDITOR + Author Affiliations Address correspondence to:Dr. K.-E. Andersson, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical […]
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I stopped watching porn on June 8, 2011 and haven’t seen a naked girl on my screen (in any form) since then. However, a crucial mistake that I was making, up until 32 days ago, was EDGING. I saw very little, to no, progress for the first 6 months or so, and never completely contributed […]
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FOR COOPER JAMES, self-improvement isn’t masturbation. Really. As of early September, it has been 225 days since the 22-year-old Calgary radio-broadcasting graduate has masturbated. The most challenging part, he says, is kicking Internet pornography. James has a mobility impairment that confines him to a wheelchair and, living in a second-level duplex, it’s a chore for […]
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Cereb. Cortex (2010) 20 (1): 61-69. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhp078 First published online: April 30, 2009 Linda Van Leijenhorst1,2, Kiki Zanolie1,3, Catharina S. Van Meel1,2,4, P. Michiel Westenberg1,2, Serge A.R.B. Rombouts1,2,5 andEveline A. Crone1,2 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Psychology, Leiden University, 2300 RB Leiden, the Netherlands 2Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, 2300 RC Leiden, […]
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Dev Psychobiol. 2010 Apr;52(3):263-76. doi: 10.1002/dev.20442. Romer D. Source Annenberg Public Policy Center University of Pennsylvania, 202 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. [email protected] Abstract Individual differences in impulsivity underlie a good deal of the risk taking that is observed during adolescence, and some of the most hazardous forms of this behavior are linked […]
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