By Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S Mark’s Story Mark is a married, 35-year-old realtor. His wife, Janet, is a pharmaceutical sales rep who spends several days each week on the road. Both report that their sex life was great until just a few years ago, and Mark is not sure what happened. He used to look […]
COMMENTS: DeltaFosb is a molecular switch that accumulates in the brain with chronic administration of addictive drugs, high fat, high sugar and wheel running. It alters the brain to cause sensitization to whatever one is over-consuming. It is a transcription factor that turns on and off genes that alter structure and communication in the reward […]
FULL STUDY Synapse. 2008 May;62(5):358-69. Perrotti LI, Weaver RR, Robison B, Renthal W, Maze I, Yazdani S, Elmore RG, Knapp DJ, Selley DE, Martin BR, Sim-Selley L, Bachtell RK, Self DW, Nestler EJ. Source Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-9070, USA. Abstract The transcription factor DeltaFosB accumulates and […]
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8-25 I am 18 years old, I discovered pornography quite early on in life around 10 or eleven years old, I remember from the earliest moment I always was turned on by pornography. I would look at pictures of naked girls, and stuff, it then elevated to heterosexual video porn, then like most, I discover […]
FULL STUDY Behav Neurosci. 2009 Apr;123(2):397-407. Freet CS, Steffen C, Nestler EJ, Grigson PS. Source Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA. [email protected] Abstract Rodents suppress intake of saccharin when it is paired with a drug of abuse (Goudie, Dickins, & Thornton, 1978; Risinger & Boyce, […]
COMMENTS: a review by the top researcher on obesity and food addiction. FULL STUDY Volume 69, Issue 4, 24 February 2011, Pages 664–679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2011.02.016, Review Paul J. Kenny1, , 1 Laboratory of Behavioral and Molecular Neuroscience, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA ________________________________________ Food is consumed in order to maintain […]
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COMMENTS: Eric Nestler lays out much of the detail about DeltaFosB and addiction. (More has since been discovered.) Simply put, DeltaFosB rises in the reward circuit in response to chronic consumption of drugs of abuse and certain natural rewards. Its evolutionary purpose is to have you get it while the getting is good (food and sex) […]
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Comments: Not as bad as the headline – as exercise started after becoming addicted powerfully reduces drug use and addiction. Bottom line is easy – exercise. Get a rat wheel and run on it. How Exercise Can Prime the Brain for Addiction April 11, 2012, 12:01 am By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Statistically, people who exercise are […]
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Han DH, Bolo N, Daniels MA, Arenella L, Lyoo IK, Renshaw PF. Compr Psychiatry. 2011 Jan-Feb;52(1):88-95. Source Department of Psychiatry, Chung Ang University, College of Medicine, Seoul 104-757, South Korea. Abstract OBJECTIVE: Recent studies have suggested that the brain circuitry mediating cue-induced desire for video games is similar to that elicited by cues related to […]
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Day 38 I would say i started masturbating since I was 12 and it is so unfortunate that i started off to tv porn. Wow what a great discovery I thought I made finding porn whilst flipping through cable channels. Ever since then I never looked back. Used to masturbate at least once a day […]