Sci Rep. 2018 Jul 4;8(1):10084. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-28478-8. Jeong H1, Yim HW2, Lee SY3, Lee HK3, Potenza MN4, Kwon JH5, Koo HJ6, Kweon YS3, Bhang SY7, Choi JS8. Abstract This study aimed to estimate overreporting (the false positive) and underreporting (false negative) rates in self-reported IGD assessment compared with clinical diagnosed IGD. The study population consisted […]
The deniers of porn addiction are agitated because the latest version of the World Health Organization’s medical diagnostic manual, The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), contains a new diagnosis suitable for diagnosing both porn addiction and sex addiction. It’s called “Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder.” For a responsible article, quoting WHO’s official spokesperson, Christian Lindmeier, the […]
Psychiatry Res. 2018 Jun 14;267:313-318. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.06.033. [Epub ahead of print] Yücens B1, Üzer A2. Abstract Internet addiction (IA) is currently becoming a serious mental health problem. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of IA among undergraduate medical students and evaluate the relationship of IA with social anxiety, impulsivity, self-esteem, and […]
I’m on a 24 day streak and since day 6 I’ve been getting really vivid dreams every night for the first time in like 10 years. For the first time in 10 years I don’t feel any sleepy during the day and I wake up feeling really refreshed every morning. This benefit kicked in at […]
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Comments: Comprehensive paper, with four clinical cases, written by a psychiatrist who became aware of the negative effects internet porn was having on some of his male patients. A bit of the intro and clinical case #1 are reproduced below. The case describes a 31 year old man who escalated into extreme porn and developed […]
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Front Psychiatry. 2018 Jun 7;9:252. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00252. PMID: 29930524 PMCID: PMC5999751 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00252 Sunyoung Park1, Hyera Ryu1, Ji-Yoon Lee1, Aruem Choi1, Dai-Jin Kim2, Sung Nyun Kim3* and Jung-Seok Choi1,4* Aims: The present study investigated neural connectivity associated with treatment responses in patients with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) using resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) coherence analyses. Methods: We […]
Is pornography use causing harm? COMMENTS: When confronted with hundreds of studies linking porn use to negative outcomes, a common tactic by pro-porn PhDs is to claim that “no causation has been demonstrated.” The reality is that when it comes to psychological and (many) medical studies, very little research reveals causation directly. For example, all […]
Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria Print version ISSN 1516-4446On-line version ISSN 1809-452X Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr., ahead of print Epub June 07, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1516-4446-2017-2476 ARTICLES Marco D.T. Scanavino1 2 Ana Ventuneac3 Carmita H.N. Abdo2 Hermano Tavares2 Maria L.S. Amaral1 Bruna Messina1 Sirlene C. Reis1 2 João P.L.B. Martins1 Jeffrey T. Parsons3 4 5 1Ambulatório de Impulso Sexual Excessivo e Prevenção de Desfechos Negativos Associados ao Comportamento Sexual (AISEP), Instituto de Psiquiatria (IPq), […]
LINK TO PAPER Gola Mateusz 1Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 2Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computations, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA *Corresponding author: Mateusz Gola, PhD; Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computations, University of California San Diego, 9500 […]
Front Psychiatry. 2018; 9: 166. Published online 2018 May 8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00166 PMCID: PMC5952034 PMID: 29867599 Daria J. Kuss,* Halley M. Pontes, and Mark D. Griffiths Abstract Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) is a potential mental disorder currently included in the third section of the latest (fifth) edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental […]