Am J Psychiatry. 2009 Jun;166(6):702-10. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08081201. Epub 2009 May 1. Pizzagalli DA, Holmes AJ, Dillon DG, Goetz EL, Birk JL, Bogdan R, Dougherty DD, Iosifescu DV, Rauch SL, Fava M. Source Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 1220 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. [email protected] OBJECTIVE: Major depressive disorder is characterized […]
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John D. Salamone, Mercè Correa Neuron – 8 November 2012 (Vol. 76, Issue 3, pp. 470-485) Summary Nucleus accumbens dopamine is known to play a role in motivational processes, and dysfunctions of mesolimbic dopamine may contribute to motivational symptoms of depression and other disorders, as well as features of substance abuse. Although it has become traditional […]
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Why Teens Are Such Impulsive Risk Takers Nov. 8, 2007 — Teenagers and adults often don’t see eye to eye, and new brain research is now shedding light on some of the reasons why. Although adolescence is often characterized by increased independence and a desire for knowledge and exploration, it also is a time when […]
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Front Behav Neurosci. 2013 Sep 25;7:131. Zhou Z, Li C, Zhu H. Source Department of Psychology, Wuxi Mental Health Center , Wuxi , China. Abstract Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is an impulse disorder or at least related to impulse control disorder. Deficits in executive functioning, including response monitoring, have been proposed as a hallmark feature […]
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J Neurosci. 2006 May 10;26(19):5131-42. Ulery PG, Rudenko G, Nestler EJ. Source Department of Psychiatry, Center for Basic Neuroscience, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-9070, USA. Abstract The transcription factor DeltaFosB (also referred to as FosB2 or FosB[short form]) is an important mediator of the long-term plasticity induced in brain by […]
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How I learned to stop worrying about diagnosis and love voles, part 1 October 2, 2013 by Jonathan Shedler, PhD in Psychologically Minded A radical direction change at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has the research world abuzz. NIMH is the major funder of mental health research and has enormous influence over […]
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Front Psychiatry. 2011 Jul 6;2:37. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00037. eCollection 2011. Helena J. V. Rutherford1*, Sarah K. Williams2*, Sheryl Moy2,3, Linda C. Mayes1 and Josephine M. Johns2,3 1 Yale Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 2 Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA 3 Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, […]
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Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011 January; 36(2): 402–410. Published online 2010 October 27. doi: 10.1038/npp.2010.170 PMCID: PMC3055672 Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn,1,2 Judi Wakeley,3 Vanessa Herbert,4 Jennifer Cook,4,5 Paolo Scollo,6 Manaan Kar Ray,3 Sudhakar Selvaraj,3 Richard E Passingham,2 Phillip Cowen,3 and Robert D Rogers2,3,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by […]
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CMAJ. 2010 March 9; 182(4): 327–328. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.091142 PMCID: PMC2831667 Valerie H. Taylor, MD PhD, Claire M. Curtis, MA, and Caroline Davis, PhD Obesity is a global health problem, and those affected require treatment by multidisciplinary treatment teams, including specialists from mental health, medicine and even surgery. Although the cause of obesity is multifaceted, it […]
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Appetite. 2009 Aug;53(1):1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2009.05.018. Epub 2009 Jun 12. Davis C, Carter JC. Source York University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada. [email protected] Abstract In this paper we argue that compulsive overeating has compelling similarities to conventional drug addiction. Our case is based on their comparable clinical features, […]
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