[First post] I’ll keep my story brief (27yrs, male). Over the past several years, I’ve suffered increasingly worse symptoms of ED. After a breakup with my first love at 21, I began to experience soft erections whenever a condom was involved, but fine without it. Around 23, I began dating a girl and I couldn’t […]
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COMMENTS: Another study demonstrating that novelty is its own reward and that the unexpected raises dopamine. One attribute that makes Internet porn different from porn of the past is the extreme novelty it provides along with the unexpected.
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It’s a common and erroneous belief that addiction equals “harm” to the brain, or that addiction is caused by “damage” to the brain. While certain addictive substances (meth, alcohol) can be neurotoxic, addiction is caused by a specific constellation of brain changes that are not necessarily classified as “brain damage”. Debunking the damage as addiction […]
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The Journal of Neuroscience, 1 June 2011, 31(22): 7960-7966; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1006-11.2011
Yan Liu1,*, Kimberly A. Young1,*, J. Thomas Curtis2, Brandon J. Aragona3, and Zuoxin Wang1
+ Author Affiliations
1.1Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306,
2.2Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Center for Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa Oklahoma 74107, and
3.3Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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Reid, et al are certainly correct that not all compulsive porn users are the same. In fact, I’m sure Hilton and Watts would agree that there are porn users with serious issues, such as AIDS or mental illness, who benefit from counseling and medication. We see a few of them on our forum, too. We also agree that it is not helpful to those recovering to imply they have permanent brain damage, although it’s doubtful this was Hilton and Watt’s intent in explaining the relevance of hypofrontality research.
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Read More… from Gary Wilson’s comment on Rebuttal by Reid, et al
Dear Sir,
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COMMENTS: Adolescents show greater activation of the reward circuitry when presented with rewarding cues. They also exhibit less cognitive control – no surprise. Both factors can increase the risk for addictions.
J Cogn Neurosci. 2010 Sep 1.
Somerville LH, Hare T, Casey BJ.
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York.
Abstract
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This guy, who could no longer use a condom successfully due to porn-induced ED, applied the recent scientific findings about how superstimuli can numb the pleasure response of the brain to his use of today’s hyperstimulating porn. He decided to allow his brain to “reboot.” Although each person’s rebooting experience is different (recoveries range from […]
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COMMENTS: This a lay version of Dr. Hilton’s “Pornography Addiction: A Neuroscience Perspective”, that is found in this same section. he makes some interesting points about mirror neurons and deltafosb, that we have yet to discuss. He is convinced, as we are, that natural rewards can be addictive and cause the same fundamental brain changes as drugs. We emphasize how dopamine is affected by the novelty of Internet porn, the seeking of users, ever shocking material. Our point is that Internet porn is different from porn of the recent past in how it affects the dopamine systems.
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COMMENTS: This a lay version of Dr. Hilton’s “Pornography Addiction: A Neuroscience Perspective”, that is found in this same section. he makes some interesting points about mirror neurons and deltafosb, that we have yet to discuss. He is convinced, as we are, that natural rewards can be addictive and cause the same brain changes as drugs. We emphasize how dopamine is affected by the novelty of Internet porn, the seeking of users, ever shocking material. Our point is that Internet porn is different from porn of the recent past in how it affects the dopamine systems.
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