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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UPDATES: Article – Research confirms enormous rise in youthful ED. This page contains articles and interviews involving over 150 experts (urology professors, urologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, sexologists, MDs) who acknowledge and have successfully treated porn-induced sexual dysfunctions. List of over 110 studies supporting this article: Studies reporting links between porn use or porn/sex addiction and sexual […]
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Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2012 Jan;219(2):469-90. doi: 10.1007/s00213-011-2550-7. Epub 2011 Nov 5. Leeman RF, Potenza MN. Similarities and Differences between Pathological Gambling and Substance Use Disorders: A Focus on Impulsivity and Compulsivity Robert F. Leeman*,1 and Marc N. Potenza1,2 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available […]
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Neuroimage. 2012 Oct 15;63(1):40-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.067. Epub 2012 Jul 6. Clark L, Stokes PR, Wu K, Michalczuk R, Benecke A, Watson BJ, Egerton A, Piccini P, Nutt DJ, Bowden-Jones H, Lingford-Hughes AR. Source Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Abstract Pathological gambling (PG) is a behavioural addiction associated with elevated impulsivity […]
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