J Behav Addict. 2019 May 23:1-11. doi: 10.1556/2006.8.2019.22. Antons S1, Mueller SM1, Wegmann E1, Trotzke P1, Schulte MM1, Brand M1,2. BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Unregulated Internet pornography (IP) use is discussed as a clinically significant disorder. Because of its primarily rewarding nature, IP is a predestinated target for addictive behaviors. However, not every user develops an […]
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Nat Neurosci. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2019 Feb 1. Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2018 Jun; 21(6): 787–793. Published online 2018 May 14. doi: 10.1038/s41593-018-0152-y PMCID: PMC6358212 NIHMSID: NIHMS987662 PMID: 29760524 Josh Berke Abstract Dopamine is a critical modulator of both learning and motivation. This presents a problem: how can target cells […]
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1235-y Ali Mohebi, Jeffrey R. Pettibone, Arif A. Hamid, Jenny-Marie T. Wong, Leah T. Vinson, Tommaso Patriarchi, Lin Tian, Robert T. Kennedy & Joshua D. Berke Nature (2019) | Download Citation Abstract The dopamine projection from ventral tegmental area (VTA) to nucleus accumbens (NAc) is critical for motivation to work for rewards and reward-driven learning. […]
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Introduction In various comments, articles and tweets Nicole Prause has claimed that not only did Prause et al., 2015 falsify “a core tenet of the addiction model, the cue reactivity biomarker,” but that “a series of behavioral studies replicated by independent laboratories [falsify] other predictions of the addiction model.” Prause cites her 2016 “Letter to […]
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World Psychiatry. 2019 Jun;18(2):119-129. doi: 10.1002/wps.20617. Firth J1,2,3, Torous J4, Stubbs B5,6, Firth JA7,8, Steiner GZ1,9, Smith L10, Alvarez-Jimenez M3,11, Gleeson J3,12, Vancampfort D13,14, Armitage CJ2,15,16, Sarris J1,17. Abstract The impact of the Internet across multiple aspects of modern society is clear. However, the influence that it may have on our brain structure and functioning […]
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J Behav Addict. 2019 May 13:1-7. doi: 10.1556/2006.8.2019.23 Fuss J1, Briken P1, Stein DJ2,3, Lochner C2,3. Author information 1 1 Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, Center of Psychosocial Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf , Hamburg, Germany. 2 2 MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and […]
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J Behav Addict. 2019 May 13:1-7. doi: 10.1556/2006.8.2019.23. Fuss J1, Briken P1, Stein DJ2,3, Lochner C2,3. Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) will be included in ICD-11 as an impulse-control disorder. CSBD also shares clinical features with obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSDs) and behavioral addictions. There has been relatively little systematic investigation of […]
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Arch Sex Behav. 2014 May; 43(4): 669–683. Published online 2014 Feb 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-014-0261-y PMCID: PMC4011938 NIHMSID: NIHMS569370 PMID: 24558123 John E. Pachankis,1,2 H. Jonathon Rendina,2,3 Ana Ventuneac,2 Christian Grov,2,4,5 and Jeffrey T. Parsons2,3,5,6,7 Abstract Cognitive appraisals about sex may represent an important component of the maintenance and treatment of hypersexuality, but they are not currently […]
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Comments: In this study, researchers looked for a link between ED and indices of pornography addiction using “craving” questionnaires. While no such link turned up (perhaps because users don’t accurately assess their degree of “craving” until they attempt to quit using), some other interesting correlations appeared in their results: Rates of erectile dysfunction were lowest […]
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Gay, straight and bisexual may not begin to capture the changing nature of human sexuality. A new study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Sex Research, analyzed surveys from around 12,000 students, and found that substantial changes in attractions, partners, and sexual identity are common from late adolescence to the early 20s, and from there […]
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