Gary Wilson raised the question with his book Your Brain on Porn about the harmful effects of porn in the internet age. A former physiology teacher who stumbled upon this research and who donates all the profits of his book YBOP to charity. With Utah legislature attempting to pass legislation that will allow individuals to […]
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Psychiatry Investig. 2017 Jan; 14(1): 21–29. Published online 2016 Dec 29. doi: 10.4306/pi.2017.14.1.21 PMCID: PMC5240456 Hoon Jung Koo,1 Doug Hyun Han,2 Sung-Yong Park,2 and Jung-Hye Kwon3 Abstract Objective This study aimed to develop and validate a Structured Clinical Interview for Internet Gaming Disorder (SCI-IGD) in adolescents. Methods First, we generated preliminary items of the SCI-IGD […]
Where to begin..? That is the big question. It’s hard to know what to write because these past 3 years (and 90 days) have turned into a really elaborate story, and all I want is to be able to effect a lasting and permanent change in someone so that they may experience something similar to […]
Biol Psychiatry. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 May 1. Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2013 May 1; 73(9): 877–886. Published online 2013 Feb 23. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.01.014 PMCID: PMC3686098 NIHMSID: NIHMS466498 Iris M. Balodis, Hedy Kober, Patrick D. Worhunsky, Marney A. White, Michael C. Stevens, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Rajita Sinha, Carlos M. […]
Men as young as 20 have erectile dysfunction, desensitised by their use of porn, which can easily become an addiction, says Gwen Loughman THE dark side of the internet is pornography. “Pornography has become very much an epidemic in our society,” says Nuala Deering, relationship and psychosexual therapist with Relationships Ireland. “We are not addressing it […]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017. Link to article Men as young as 20 have erectile dysfunction, desensitised by their use of porn, which can easily become an addiction, says Gwen Loughman THE dark side of the internet is pornography. “Pornography has become very much an epidemic in our society,” says Nuala Deering, relationship and psychosexual therapist with […]
January 12, 2017 Teenagers who play video games for more than four hours a day suffer from symptoms of depression, but frequent use of social media and instant messaging may mitigate symptoms of game addiction in these teens, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led research suggests. The findings, scheduled for publication in the […]
Health Psychol Open. 2016 Jan; 3(1): 2055102916636907. Published online 2016 Mar 28. doi: 10.1177/2055102916636907 PMCID: PMC5193275 David F Marks1 Abstract When eating control is overridden by hedonic reward, a condition of obesity dyshomeostasis occurs. Appetitive hedonic reward is a natural response to an obesogenic environment containing endemic stress and easily accessible and palatable high-energy foods […]
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Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2012 May;69(5):529-37. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.1586. Grosshans M1, Vollmert C, Vollstädt-Klein S, Tost H, Leber S, Bach P, Bühler M, von der Goltz C, Mutschler J, Loeber S, Hermann D, Wiedemann K, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Kiefer F. Abstract CONTEXT: Overlapping neurobiological pathways between obesity and addiction disorders are currently in discussion. Whereas the hypothalamic regulation […]
Today is my one year anniversary of being PMO free. I am 43 years old and have been addicted since I was a teenager. I had tried many times to get better but always found it too difficult to quit. I never understood why I failed despite trying so many different things. My wife knew […]