Your Brain in the Cybersex Jungle Radio Show (Archived Shows: 2013-2014)

Has the Web stolen your mojo? Listen and find out in these radio shows Whether it’s Internet pornography, Facebook, or video-games, constant stimulation at a click is new to mankind. Many brains are finding it too much to handle. Gary examines the evolutionary and neurochemical reasons, with attention to the unique vulnerability of adolescent brains. […]

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DSM committee members explain why porn addiction will soon be in manual

Charles O’Brien, M.D., chair of the DSM-5 Work Group on Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders. The idea of a non-substance-related addiction may be new to some people, but those of us who are studying the mechanisms of addiction find strong evidence from animal and human research that addiction is a disorder of the brain reward system, […]

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