The experience itself of not jacking off to a computer every day, avoiding it entirely — the way you feel…I feel like a child again. I am beginning to experience emotions I have not felt in a long long time. Absolutely anything is happy to me. Just walking outside and feeling the crisp fall air. […]
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Comments: In this case study, experts point out that recovery from internet gaming disorder (IGD) still left a patient using internet porn excessively with adverse consequences. They urge experts to address porn use as a “co-occurring morbidity with IGD,” lest it become more insidious and difficult to treat. Yale J Biol Med. 2015 Sep 3;88(3):319-324. […]
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Yale J Biol Med. 2015 Sep; 88(3): 309–317. Published online 2015 Sep 3. PMCID: PMC4553652 Focus: Addiction Chaoying S. Xu, Jessica S. Chen, and Ron A. Adelman* Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Video games have surged in popularity due to their entertainment factor and, with recent innovation, their use […]
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Citation: Translational Psychiatry (2015) 5, e624; doi:10.1038/tp.2015.106 Published online 25 August 2015 J-W Chun1, J Choi1, H Cho1, S-K Lee2 and D J Kim1 1Department of Psychiatry, Seoul St Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital, Chuncheon, Korea Correspondence: Professor DJ Kim, Department of Psychiatry, […]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8174–8179. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402680101 PMCID: PMC419576 Neuroscience Nitin Gogtay,*† Jay N. Giedd,* Leslie Lusk,* Kiralee M. Hayashi,‡ Deanna Greenstein,* A. Catherine Vaituzis,* Tom F. Nugent, III,* David H. Herman,* Liv S. Clasen,* Arthur W. Toga,‡ Judith L. Rapoport,* and Paul […]
Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2015 Sep;17(9):609. doi: 10.1007/s11920-015-0609-6. Shams TA1, Foussias G, Zawadzki JA, Marshe VS, Siddiqui I, Müller DJ, Wong AH. Abstract Video games are now a ubiquitous form of entertainment that has occasionally attracted negative attention. Video games have also been used to test cognitive function, as therapeutic interventions for neuropsychiatric disorders, and to […]
Front Psychiatry. 2014; 5: 164. Published online 2014 Nov 19. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00164 PMCID: PMC4237037 Marc N. Potenza1,* and Carlos M. Grilo2 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Cravings represent strong motivational states that are characterized by intense desires typically relating […]
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Is porn bad for the brain? The Savvy Psychologist explains 3 studies that looked at how we process porn and other sexualized images, and reveals the potential effects on the brain—and on how we see our fellow men and women A recent neurology study found that the more porn a man watched, the less gray […]
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COMMENTS: A study on men (average age 41.5) with hypersexuality disorders, such as paraphilias and chronic masturbation or adultery. 27 were classified as “avoidant masturbators,” meaning they masturbated (typically with porn use) one or more hours per day or more than 7 hours per week. 71% of these porn addicts reported sexual functioning problems, with […]
J Youth Adolesc. 2015 Jul 25. Doornwaard SM1, van den Eijnden RJ, Baams L, Vanwesenbeeck I, Ter Bogt TF. LINK TO FULL STUDY Abstract Although a growing body of literature addresses the effects of young people’s use of sexually explicit Internet material, research on the compulsive use of this type of online content among adolescents […]