Your Brain on Porn: How Internet Porn Affects the Brain (2015)
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Studies mentioned or alluded to in presentation
- Neural Correlates of Sexual Cue Reactivity in Individuals with and without Compulsive Sexual Behaviours (2014)
- Brain Structure and Functional Connectivity Associated With Pornography Consumption: The Brain on Porn (2014)
- Enhanced Attentional Bias towards Sexually Explicit Cues in Individuals with and without Compulsive Sexual Behaviours (2014)
- Pornography addiction – a supranormal stimulus considered in the context of neuroplasticity (2013).
- Natural and Augmented Breasts: Is What is Not Natural Most Attractive? (2012)
- Male sexual arousal across five modes of erotic stimulation. (1988)
- Dynamic Changes in Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine Efflux During the Coolidge Effect in Male Rats (1997)
- Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms (2005)
- Changes in the magnitude of the eyeblink startle response during habituation of sexual arousal (2000)
- Methamphetamine acts on subpopulations of neurons regulating sexual behavior in male rats (2010)
- DeltaFosB: A sustained molecular switch for addiction (2001)
- DeltaFosB: A Molecular Switch for Reward (2013)
- Natural and Drug Rewards Act on Common Neural Plasticity Mechanisms with ΔFosB as a Key Mediator (2013)
- DeltaFosB in The Nucleus Accumbens is Critical For Reinforcing Effects of Sexual Reward. (2010)
- Neuroplasticity in the Mesolimbic System Induced by Natural Reward and Subsequent Reward Abstinence. (2010)
- Endogenous opioid-induced neuroplasticity of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area influences natural and opiate reward (2014)
- Dopamine modulates reward system activity during subconscious processing of sexual stimuli (2012)
- Preliminary investigation of the impulsive and neuroanatomical characteristics of compulsive sexual behavior (2009)
- Anxiety increases sexual arousal (1983)
- Sexual anxiety and female sexual arousal: a comparison of arousal during sexual anxiety stimuli and sexual pleasure stimuli (1987)
- The effect of emotional arousal on subsequent sexual arousal in men (1980)
- Sexual arousal may decrease natural disgust response (2012)
- Research Finds Source of Thrill From Fear (2011)
- The Demise of Guys?: Philip Zimbardo
- Sex on the Brain: What Brain Plasticity Teaches About Internet Porn (2014), Norman Doidge, MD
- Reversing Japan's rising sex aversion may depend on a rebirth of hope (2012)
- 20% of French men aged 18-24 years say they have no interest in sexual or romantic activity (2008)
- Pornography Use and Addiction - 33% of men 18-30 "addicted" or "unsure" (2014)
- Study: Low sexual desire and ejaculation disorders higher in young internet porn users (2015)
- UK survey: NSPCC poll found one-in-ten 12 to 13-year-olds worried about porn addictio (2015)
- 'Pornography addiction worry' for tenth of 12 to 13-year-olds (BBC)
- More than 80% of high school students exposed to porn, 13.5% addicted, says study. (2013)
- Rare Under-40 Poll: Porn is ruining our sex lives?
- Men 'Worried' About Heavy Internet Porn Use (2011)
- Study: Anal heterosex among ages 16-18 reveals climate of 'coercion' & influence of porn
Coolidge effect, habituation, and sexual novelty
Internet addiction studies: sections with collections of studies
- Our full collection of recent Internet Addiction Studies.
- List of Internet & Video Game Brain Studies
- Short Summaries of Internet Addiction Research
- Internet Addiction Studies: Containing Excerpts About Porn
- Studies Demonstrating Internet Use as Causing Symptoms & Brain Changes
Addiction experts on behavioral addiction:
- The American Society of Addiction Medicine New Definition of Addiction (2011)
- ASAM’s Definition of Addiction - Frequently Asked Questions.
- ASAM Press Release.
- Toss Your Textbooks: Docs Redefine Sexual Behavior Addictions. American Society of Addiction Medicine agrees to disagree with DSM
- A Radical New View of Addiction Stirs Scientific Storm
- More Addictions, Less Stigma: Head of NIDA Wants Name Change to Include Porn, Food, Gambling (2007)
The DSM is outdated, not biologically based
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): DSM is flawed and outdated - by the head of NIMH
- Critics say clinical manual unfit for mental-health research
- The NIMH Withdraws Support for DSM-5: The latest development is a humiliating blow to the APA.
- NIMH: A Requiem for DSM - and its Critics. A new generation will reject DSM, and the anti-biological critics
Collections of supporting studies: basic science, dopamine, behavioral addictions, effects of porn use
Dopamine's role in addiction, sex, and behavior
- Dopamine and Novelty
- Coolidge Effect & Habituation
- Dopamine & Depression
- Dopamine Receptors
- Dopamine and Addiction
- Dopamine and Cognition/ADHD
- Dopamine and Social Anxiety
- Dopamine, Testosterone, and Sexual Function
- Sexual Satiety
Behavioral addiction
- Behavioral Addictions
- Internet & Video Game Addiction
- Food Addiction
- Intermittent Excessive Behaviors: Sugar & Junk Food
- Gambling Addiction
- Delta FosB and Sexual Behavior
- DeltaFosB, Neuroplasticity and Addiction
- Hypofrontality
- Sensitization Research
Porn related
- Porn Use & Sex Addiction
- Porn Viewing & Brain Scans
- Adolescents & Pornography
- Adolescent Brain
- Fear, Stress, Memory & Reward
Effects of Pornography: Adults
- Neural Correlates of Sexual Cue Reactivity in Individuals with and without Compulsive Sexual Behaviours (2014)
- Brain Structure and Functional Connectivity Associated With Pornography Consumption: The Brain on Porn (2014)
- Enhanced Attentional Bias towards Sexually Explicit Cues in Individuals with and without Compulsive Sexual Behaviours (2014)
- Pornography addiction – a supranormal stimulus considered in the context of neuroplasticity (2013)
- The Impact of Internet Pornography on Adolescents: A Review of the Research (2012)
- Cybersex addiction: Craving and cognitive processes (2012)
- "Bareback" Pornography Consumption and Safe-Sex Intentions of Men Having Sex with Men.
- A Longitudinal Analysis of US Adults’ Pornography Exposure: Sexual Socialization, Selective Exposure, and the Moderating Role of Unhappiness (2012)
- A Love That Doesn't Last: Pornography Consumption and Weakened Commitment to One's Romantic Partner (2012) - Abstained from porn for 3 weeks
- A Meta-Analysis Summarizing the Effects of Pornography II Aggression After Exposure (1995)
- A Systematic Review of the Association Between Pornography Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors in Adult Consumers (2015)
- Aggression and sexual behavior in best-selling pornography videos: a content analysis update (2010)
- An Investigation of Internet Use, Sexual and Nonsexual Sensation Seeking, and Sexual Compulsivity among College Students (2007)
- Augmentation with naltrexone to treat compulsive sexual behavior: a case series (2010)
- Canadian teen boys’ online porn viewing habits ‘concerning’: study. (2014)
- Capturing Sexual Violence Experiences Among Battered Women Using the Revised Sexual Experiences Survey and the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (2014)
- Compulsive sexual behavior among male military veterans: Prevalence and associated clinical factors (2014)
- Cybersex Users, Abusers, and Compulsives: New Findings and Implications (2000)
- Cybersex addiction in heterosexual female users of internet pornography can be explained by gratification hypothesis (2014)
- Cybersex addiction: Experienced sexual arousal when watching pornography and not real-life sexual contacts makes the difference (2013)
- Differential psychological impact of internet exposure on internet addicts (2013)
- Does deviant pornography use follow a Guttman-like progression? (2013)
- Does pornography influence young women's sexual behavior? (2003)
- Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography (1986)
- Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography on Family Values (1988)
- Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Considerations on Factors Contributing to Cybersex Addiction From a Cognitive Behavioral View (2014)
- Experimental Effects of Exposure to Pornography: The Moderating Effect of Personality and Mediating Effect of Sexual Arousal (2014)
- Exploring Psychopathology, Personality Traits, and Marital Distress Among Women Married to Hypersexual Men (2010)
- Factors Predicting Cybersex Use and Difficulties in Forming Intimate Relationships among Male and Female Users of Cybersex (2015)
- Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues in a multitasking situation is related to symptoms of cybersex addiction (2015)
- Hypersexual Behavior in an Online Sample of Males: Associations with Personal Distress and Functional Impairment (2013)
- Hypersexual Disorder: A Proposed Diagnosis for DSM-V (2009)
- Hypersexuality and High Sexual Desire: Exploring the Structure of Problematic Sexuality (2015)
- Initiation and maintenance of online sexual compulsivity: Implications for assessment and treatment (2000)
- Internet Pornography and Loneliness: An Association? (2005)
- Internet Sex Addiction Treated With Naltrexone (2008)
- Internet Sex Addiction: Risk Factors, Stages of Development, and Treatment (2008)
- Internet sex addiction and its negative consequences: a report. (2015)
- Korean Men’s Pornography use, Their Interest in Extreme Pornography, and Dyadic Sexual Relationships (2014)
- Masturbation and Pornography Use Among Coupled Heterosexual Men With Decreased Sexual Desire: How Many Roles of Masturbation? (2014)
- Mental-and physical-health indicators and sexually explicit media use behavior by adults (2011)
- More than half of voters under 40 either think porn is ruining their sex lives, or are "unsure"
- Narcissism & Internet Pornography Use (2014)
- Neural response to visual sexual cues in dopamine treatment-linked hypersexuality in Parkinson's disease (2013)
- No Harm in Looking, Right? Men’s Pornography Consumption, Body Image, and Well-Being (2014)
- Perceptions of relationship satisfaction and addictive behavior: Comparing pornography and marijuana use (2012)
- Pornographic Picture Processing Interferes with Working Memory Performance. (2012)
- Pornography Addiction: A Neuroscience Perspective (2011)
- Pornography Consumption and Opposition to Affirmative Action for Women: A Prospective Study (2013)
- Pornography Use Who Uses It and How It Is Associated with Couple Outcomes (2012)
- Pornography Viewing among Fraternity Men: Effects on Bystander Intervention, Rape Myth Acceptance and Behavioral Intent to Commit Sexual Assault (2011)
- Pornography and Sexist Attitudes Among Heterosexuals (2013)
- Pornography and Sexual Callousness and the Trivialization of Rape (1982)
- Pornography and attitudes supporting violence against women: revisiting the relationship in nonexperimental studies (2010)
- Pornography and sexual aggression: are there reliable effects and can we understand them? (2000)
- Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations (2014)
- Pornography consumption and non-marital sexual behaviour in a sample of young Indonesian university students (2013)
- Pornography's Effects on Interpersonal Relationships
- Pornography's Impact on Sexual Satisfaction (1988)
- Pornography, Alcohol, and Male Sexual Dominance (2014)
- Pornography, Relationship Alternatives, and Intimate Extradyadic Behavior (2013)
- Predicting Compulsive Internet Use: It's All About Sex! (2006)
- Predicting internet pornography use and arousal: the role of individual difference variables (2009)
- Prevalence, Severity, and Correlates of Problematic Sexual Internet Use in Swedish Men and Women. (2011)
- Problematic Online Pornography Use: A Media Attendance Perspective (2015)
- Report of Findings in a DSM-5 Field Trial for Hypersexual Disorder. (2012)
- Self-Reported Indicators of Hypersexuality and Its Correlates in a Female Online Sample (2014)
- Self-reported differences on measures of executive function and hypersexual behavior in a patient and community sample of men (2010)
- Sex Differences in Succumbing to Sexual Temptations: A Function of Impulse or Control? (2013)
- Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll: hypothesizing common mesolimbic activation as a function of reward gene polymorphisms (2012)
- Sexual Addiction or Hypersexual Disorder: Different Terms for the Same Problem? A Review of The Literature (2013)
- Sexual Picture Processing Interferes with Decision-Making Under Ambiguity (2013)
- Sexual addictions (2010)
- Sexual and contraceptive behavior among female university students in Sweden - repeated surveys over a 25-year period (2015)
- Sexual behaviour among young men in Sweden and the impact of pornography (2004)
- Sexual media use and relationship satisfaction in heterosexual couples (2011)
- Shifting Preferences in Pornography Consumption (1986)
- Should virtual sex be treated like other sex addictions? (2000)
- Survey: Pornography Use and Addiction - Men and women (2014)
- The Pornography Craving Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties (2014)
- The Role of Sexual Compulsivity, Impulsivity, and Experiential Avoidance in Internet Pornography Use (2012)
- Treatment of compulsive cybersex behavior (2008)
- Two Cases of Hypersexuality Probably Associated with Aripiprazole (2013)
- University of Sydney study exposes secret world of porn addiction (2012)
- Use of Internet Pornography and Men's Well-Being (2005)
- Viewing Internet Pornography: For Whom is it Problematic, How, and Why? (2009)
- Watching Pornographic Pictures on the Internet: Role of Sexual Arousal Ratings and Psychological-Psychiatric Symptoms for Using Internet Sex Sites Excessively (2010)
- Watching pornography gender differences violence and victimization: An exploratory study in Italy (2011)
- Women, Female Sex and Love Addicts, and Use of the Internet (2012)
- X Views and Counting: Interest in Rape-Oriented Pornography as Gendered Microaggression (2015)
- Young adult women’s reports of their male romantic partner’s pornography use as a correlate of their psychological distress, relationship quality, and sexual satisfaction (2012)
Effects of Pornography: Adolescents
- A New Generation of Sexual Addiction (2013)
- The Impact of Internet Pornography on Adolescents: A Review of the Research (2012)
- 'It's everywhere!' young Swedish people's thoughts and reflections about pornography (2006)
- Adolescent pornographic internet site use: a multivariate regression analysis of the predictive factors of use and psychosocial implications (2009)
- Adolescents and Internet Sex Addiction (2009)
- Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Notions of Women as Sex Objects: Assessing Causality and Underlying Processes (2009)
- Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Sexual Preoccupancy: A Three-Wave Panel Study (2008)
- Adolescents’ Exposure to a Sexualized Media Environment and Their Notions of Women as Sex Objects (2007)
- Anal heterosex among young people and implications for health promotion: a qualitative study in the UK (2014)
- Associations between young adults' use of sexually explicit materials and their sexual preferences, behaviors, and satisfaction (2011)
- Cybersex and the E-Teen: What marriage and family therapists should know. (2008)
- Developmental Pathways into Social and Sexual Deviance (2010)
- Early adolescent boys’ exposure to internet pornography: Relationships to pubertal timing, sensation seeking, and academic performance (2014)
- Early sexual experiences: the role of Internet access and sexually explicit material (2008)
- Emerging Adult Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors: Does Shyness Matter? (2013)
- Exposure to Sexual Content in Popular Movies Predicts Sexual Behavior in Adolescence (2012)
- Exposure to internet pornography among children and adolescents a national survey (2005)
- Factors Associated With Exposure to Violent or Degrading Pornography Among High School Students (2015)
- Fiction or Not? Fifty Shades is Associated with Health Risks in Adolescent and Young Adult Females (2014)
- Frequent users of pornography. A population based epidemiological study of Swedish male adolescents (2010)
- Generation XXX: Pornography Acceptance and Use Among Emerging Adults (2008)
- Human Sexual Development is Subject to Critical Period Learning: Implications for Sexual Addiction, Sexual Therapy, and for Child Rearing (2014)
- Influence of unrestrained access to erotica on adolescents’ and young adults’ dispositions toward sexuality (2000)
- Most teenagers think internet pornography is damaging, poll finds (2014)
- Pornographic exposure over the life course and the severity of sexual offenses: Imitation and cathartic effects (2011)
- Pornography Consumption, Sexual Experiences, Lifestyles, and Self-rated Health Among Male Adolescents in Sweden (2013)
- Pornography Use and Addiction - 33% of men 18-30 "addicted" or "unsure" (2014)
- Pornography Viewing among Fraternity Men: Effects on Bystander Intervention, Rape Myth Acceptance and Behavioral Intent to Commit Sexual Assault (2011)
- Pornography and sexual aggression: Associations of violent and nonviolent depictions with rape and rape proclivity
- Pornography and teenagers: the importance of individual differences (2005)
- Pornography use as a risk marker for an aggressive pattern of behavior among sexually reactive children and adolescents (2009)
- Prevalence Rates of Male and Female Sexual Violence Perpetrators in a National Sample of Adolescents (2013)
- Processes Underlying the Effects of Adolescents’ Use of Sexually Explicit Internet Material: The Role of Perceived Realism (2010)
- Relationships among cybersex addiction, gender egalitarianism, sexual attitude and the allowance of sexual violence in adolescents (2007)
- Sex-related online behaviors and adolescents' body and sexual self-perceptions (2014)
- Sexual Addiction among Teens: A Review (2007)
- Social bonds and Internet pornographic exposure among adolescents (2009)
- The impact of Internet pornography on marriage and the family: A review of the research (2006)
- The impact of compulsive cybersex behaviours on the family (2003)
- Teenage boys watching more porn (Sweden, 2013)
- Trends in youth reports of sexual solicitations, harassment and unwanted exposure to pornography on the Internet (2007)
- Use of Pornography and its Associations with Sexual Experiences, Lifestyles and Health among Adolescents (2014)
- Use of pornography and self-reported engagement in sexual violence among adolescents (2007)
- When is Online Pornography Viewing Problematic Among College Males? Examining the Moderating Role of Experiential Avoidance (2012)
- X-Rated: Sexual attitudes and behaviors associated with U.S. early adolescents’ exposure to sexually explicit media (2009)
- X-rated material and perpetration of sexually aggressive behavior among children and adolescents: is there a link? (2011)
- Young Adult Women’s Reports of Their Male Romantic Partner’s Pornography Use as a Correlate of Their Self-Esteem, Relationship Quality, and Sexual Satisfaction (2012)
- 1 in 3 boys heavy porn users, Canadian study shows (2007)
- A fifth of boys aged between 16 and 20 told the University of East London they were “dependent on porn as a stimulant for real sex” (2013)
- Children becoming addicted to Internet porn (2012)
- Entire school year groups have seen porn, children's watchdog says (2013)
- Online pornography is leading to more sexual assaults by young men in NSW, police say (2014)
- Why teenagers’ obsession with porn is creating a generation of 20-year-old virgins (The Telegraph - UK)
- 40 percent of college and higher secondary school boys in Goa watch rape porn (2014)
DeltaFosB: sensitization, sexual behavior
- Cell-type specific increases in female hamster nucleus accumbens spine density following female sexual experience (2013)
- Changes in gene expression within the nucleus accumbens and striatum following sexual experience (2005)
- Concurrent exposure to methamphetamine and sexual behavior enhances subsequent drug reward and causes compulsive sexual behavior in male rats (2011)
- Delta JunD overexpression in the nucleus accumbens prevents sexual reward in female Syrian hamsters (2013)
- DeltaFosB Overexpression In The Nucleus Accumbens Enhances Sexual Reward In Female Syrian Hamsters (2009)
- DeltaFosB in The Nucleus Accumbens is Critical For Reinforcing Effects of Sexual Reward. (2010)
- DeltaFosB: A Molecular Switch for Reward (2013)
- Endogenous opioid-induced neuroplasticity of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area influences natural and opiate reward (2014)
- Methamphetamine acts on subpopulations of neurons regulating sexual behavior in male rats (2010)
- Natural and Drug Rewards Act on Common Neural Plasticity Mechanisms with ΔFosB as a Key Mediator (2013)
- Natural reward experience alters AMPA and NMDA receptor distribution and function in the nucleus accumbens (2012)
- Neuroplasticity in the Mesolimbic System Induced by Natural Reward and Subsequent Reward Abstinence. (2010)
- Sexual Behavior Induction of c-Fos in the Nucleus Accumbens and Amphetamine-Stimulated Locomotor Activity Are Sensitized by Previous Sexual Experience in Female Syrian Hamsters (2001)
- Sexual experience alters D1 receptor-mediated cyclic AMP production in the nucleus accumbens of female Syrian hamsters (2004)
- Sexual experience in female rodents: cellular mechanisms and functional consequences (2006)
- Sexual experience sensitizes mating-related nucleus accumbens dopamine responses of female Syrian hamsters (1999)
- Sexual reward in male rats: Effects of sexual experience on conditioned place preferences associated with ejaculation and intromissions (2009)
- The Influence of ΔFosB in the Nucleus Accumbens on Natural Reward Related Behavior (2008)
DeltaFosB: sensitization and addiction studies
- DeltaFosB: A Molecular Switch for Reward (2013)
- DeltaFosB: A sustained molecular switch for addiction (2001)
- (L) Brain Buildup of Delta-FosB Causes Addiction
- (L) The Addicted Brain - Nestler and Malenka (2004)
- (HUMAN) Behavioral and Structural Responses to Chronic Cocaine Require a Feedforward Loop Involving ΔFosB and Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II in the Nucleus Accumbens Shell (2013)
- Acute and repeated cocaine induces alterations in FosB/DeltaFosB expression in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (2006)
- An essential role for DeltaFosB in the nucleus accumbens in morphine action (2006)
- BDNF Over-Expression in the Ventral Tegmental Area Prolongs Social Defeat Stress-induced Cross-Sensitization to Amphetamine and Increases ΔFosB Expression in Mesocorticolimbic Regions of Rats (2013)
- Cdk5 Phosphorylates Dopamine D2 Receptor and Attenuates Downstream Signaling (2013)
- Cellular basis of memory for addiction (2013)
- Chronic alterations in dopaminergic neurotransmission produce a persistent elevation of deltaFosB-like protein(s) in both the rodent and primate striatum. (1996)
- Chronic self-administration of alcohol results in elevated ΔFosB: comparison of hybrid mice with distinct drinking patterns (2012)
- Cocaine-induced dendritic spine formation in D1 and D2 dopamine receptor-containing medium spiny neurons in nucleus accumbens (2006)
- Compared With Chimps, Humans Slow to Insulate Nerve Fibers (2012)
- DeltaFosB Induction in HUMAN Prefrontal Cortex by Antipsychotic Drugs is Associated with Negative Behavioral Outcomes (2013)
- DeltaFosB Induction in Striatal Medium Spiny Neuron Subtypes in Response to Chronic Pharmacological, Emotional, and Optogenetic Stimuli (2013)
- DeltaFosB Regulates Wheel Running (2002)
- DeltaFosB differentially modulates nucleus accumbens direct and indirect pathway function (2013)
- DeltaFosB enhances the rewarding effects of cocaine while reducing the pro-depressive effects of the kappa-opioid receptor agonist U50488 (2012)
- DeltaFosB in brain reward circuits mediates resilience to stress and antidepressant responses. (2010)
- DeltaFosB in the Nucleus Accumbens Regulates Food Reinforced Instrumental Behavior and Motivation (2006)
- DeltaFosB indirectly regulates Cck promoter activity (2010)
- DeltaFosB induction correlates inversely with CB₁ receptor desensitization in a brain region-dependent manner following repeated Δ⁹-THC administration (2014)
- DeltaFosB induction in orbitofrontal cortex potentiates locomotor sensitization despite attenuating the cognitive dysfunction caused by cocaine.(2009)
- DeltaFosB-mediated alterations in dopamine signaling are normalized by a palatable high fat diet (2008)
- DeltaFosB: A Molecular Gate to Motivational Processes within the Nucleus Accumbens? (2006)
- DeltaFosb: Addiction & Conditioning
- Detection of molecular alterations in methamphetamine-activated Fos-expressing neurons from a single rat dorsal striatum using fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) (2013)
- Distinct patterns of DeltaFosB induction in brain by drugs of abuse. (2008)
- Drug Addiction as a Pathology of Staged Neuroplasticity (2007)
- Drug experience epigenetically primes Fosb gene inducibility in rat nucleus accumbens (2012)
- Drug-induced alterations in the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signalling pathway: implications for reinforcement and reinstatement (2008)
- ERK2: a logical AND gate critical for drug-induced plasticity? (2006)
- Early life exposure to a high fat diet promotes long-term changes in dietary preferences and central reward signaling (Deltafosb reduces dopamine signaling) (2009)
- Effect of ΔFosB overexpression on opioid and cannabinoid receptor-mediated signaling in the nucleus accumbens (2011)
- Electroacupuncture Decreases Excessive Alcohol Consumption Involving Reduction of FosB/ΔFosB Levels in Reward-Related Brain Regions (2012)
- Enkephalin downregulation in the nucleus accumbens underlies chronic stress-induced anhedonia (2014)
- Essential Role of the Histone Methyltransferase G9a in Cocaine-induced Plasticity (2010)
- Functional Role of the N-Terminal Domain of ΔFosB in Response to Stress and Drugs of Abuse (2014)
- Glucocorticoids Regulation of FosB/ΔFosB Expression Induced by Chronic Opiate Exposure in the Brain Stress System (2012)
- High Trait Impulsivity Predicts Food Addiction-Like Behavior in the Rat (2014)
- Increased activity of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 leads to attenuation of cocaine-mediated dopamine signaling (2005)
- Increased impulsivity during withdrawal from cocaine self-administration: role for DeltaFosB in the orbitofrontal cortex (2009)
- Induction of FosB/DeltaFosB in the brain stress system-related structures during morphine dependence and withdrawal (2010)
- Induction of a salt appetite alters dendritic morphology in nucleus accumbens and sensitizes rats to amphetamine (2002)
- Integrating synaptic plasticity and striatal circuit function in addiction (2011)
- Long term voluntary wheel running is rewarding and produces plasticity in the mesolimbic reward pathway. (2010)
- Long-Term Exercise Is a Potent Trigger for ΔFosB Induction in the Hippocampus along the dorso-ventral Axis (2013)
- Molecular neurobiology of addiction: what's all the DeltaFosB about? (2014)
- Neuroplasticity in addiction: cellular and transcriptional perspectives (2012)
- Overexpression of DeltaFosB in nucleus accumbens mimics the protective addiction phenotype, but not the protective depression phenotype of environmental enrichment (2014)
- Overexpression of DeltaFosB is associated with attenuated cocaine induced suppression of saccharin intake in mice. (2009)
- Periadolescent Mice Show Enhanced ΔFosB Upregulation in Response to Cocaine and Amphetamine (2002)
- Protein Kinase G Regulates Dopamine Release, ΔFosB Expression, and Locomotor Activity After Repeated Cocaine Administration: Involvement of Dopamine D2 Receptors (2013)
- Regulation of DeltaFosB stability by phosphorylation (2006)
- Regulation of gene expression and cocaine reward by CREB and DeltaFosB (2003)
- Selective Inactivation of Striatal FosB/ΔFosB-Expressing Neurons Alleviates L-Dopa-Induced Dyskinesia (2014)
- Serum Response Factor and cAMP Response Element Binding Protein Are Both Required for Cocaine Induction of Delta FosB (2012)
- Serum response factor promotes resilience to chronic social stress through the induction of DeltaFosB.(2010)
- Sexual Experience in Female Rodents: Cellular Mechanisms and Functional Consequences (2006)
- Small Molecule Screening Identifies Regulators of the Transcription Factor ΔFosB (2012)
- Striatal regulation of DeltaFosB, FosB, and cFos during cocaine self-administration and withdrawal (2010)
- The Influence of ΔFosB in the Nucleus Accumbens on Natural Reward Related Behavior (2008)
- The clinical relevance of neuroplasticity in corticostriatal networks during operant learning (2013)
- The striatal balancing act in drug addiction: distinct roles of direct and indirect pathway medium spiny neurons (2011)
- Threonine 149 Phosphorylation Enhances ΔFosB Transcriptional Activity to Control Psychomotor Responses to Cocaine (2014)
- Transcriptional mechanisms of addiction: role of ΔFosB (2008)
- Transcriptional mechanisms of drug addiction (2012)
- Transcriptional mechanisms underlying addiction-related structural plasticity (2010)
- Withdrawal induces distinct patterns of FosB/∆FosB expression in outbred Swiss mice classified as susceptible and resistant to ethanol-induced locomotor sensitization (2014
- Dopamine Reshapes Key Brain Circuits that Control Behavior (2008)
- Addiction - A Loss of Plasticity of the Brain? (2010)
- Addiction: A Disease of Learning and Memory (2005)
- (L) Delta-FosB Low in Depression, Protects Mice From Stress (2010)
- (L) BDNF - Flipping The Brain's Addiction Switch Without Drugs (2009)
Sexual conditioning
- Conditioning and Sexual Behavior: A Review
- Human Sexual Development is Subject to Critical Period Learning: Implications for Sexual Addiction, Sexual Therapy, and for Child Rearing (2014)
- The role of conditioning, learning and dopamine in sexual behavior: a narrative review of animal and human studies (2013)
- The Role of Classical Conditioning in Sexual Compulsivity A Pilot Study (2014)
- Extinction and Renewal of Conditioned Sexual Responses (2014)
- Why Women Engage in Anal Intercourse: Results from a Qualitative Study (2014)
- Conditioned Sexual Arousal in a Nonhuman Primate (2011)
- What can animal models tell us about human sexual response? (2013)
- Who, What, Where, When (and Maybe Even Why)? How the Experience of Sexual Reward Connects Sexual Desire, Preference, and Performance (2012)
- Same-sex cohabitation under the effects of quinpirole induces a conditioned socio-sexual partner preference in males, but not in female rats (2011).
- Enhanced D2-type receptor activity facilitates the development of conditioned same-sex partner preference in male rat (2012)
- Considering the role of conditioning in sexual orientation (2012)
- Neural activations of the acquisition of conditioned sexual arousal: effects of contingency awareness and sex (2009)
- Sexual anxiety and female sexual arousal: a comparison of arousal during sexual anxiety stimuli and sexual pleasure stimuli (1987)
- Sexual experience in female rodents: cellular mechanisms and functional consequences (2006)
- Sexual reward in male rats: effects of sexual experience on conditioned place preferences associated with ejaculation and intromissions (2009)
- The role of conditioning on heterosexual and homosexual partner preferences in rats (2012)
- Conditioned same-sex partner preference in male rats is facilitated by oxytocin and dopamine: Effect on sexually dimorphic brain nuclei (2014)
- DeltaFosB in The Nucleus Accumbens is Critical For Reinforcing Effects of Sexual Reward. (2010)
- Dopamine, learning, and reward-seeking behavior (2007)
- Methamphetamine acts on subpopulations of neurons regulating sexual behavior in male rats (2009)
- Natural and Drug Rewards Act on Common Neural Plasticity Mechanisms with ΔFosB as a Key Mediator (2013)
- (L) Sexual Preference In Rats Influenced By Oxytocin And Dopamine
- (L) What Can Rats Wearing Jackets Tell Us About Men Who Love Lingerie? (2014)
Expert testimony on PIED - Porn-Induced ED in the Media: Primarily Experts
- Too Much Internet Porn May Cause Impotence, urology professor Carlo Foresta (2011)
- Studies: PDF of a lecture by urology professor Carlo Foresta (2014)
- The Dr. Oz Show addresess Porn-induced ED (2013)
- YBOP review of "The New Naked" by urologist Harry Fisch, MD (2014)
- Behind the documentary: Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction, Global News Canada (2014)
- 'Generation X-Rated' (Porn-Induced ED) - Urologist Abraham Morgentaler (2014)
- Porn causing erectile dysfunction in young men, by Global News Canada (2014)
- LIVE BLOG: Porn-induced erectile dysfunction (Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, Gabe Deem)
- Too Much Internet Porn: The SADD Effect, by Ian Kerner PhD. (2013)
- Solutions for porn-induced erectile dysfunction, by Sudeepta Varma, MD, Psychiatry (2013)
Lay articles (each contains multiple citations)
DeltaFosB & sensitization articles
Adolescent brain vulnerabilities
- Adolescent Brain Meets Highspeed Internet Porn (2013)
- Why Shouldn’t Johnny Watch Porn If He Likes?
- First Sex: Just The Science Please
- Are Sexual Tastes Immutable?
- Young Porn Users Need Longer To Recover Their Mojo
- Can You Trust Your Johnson?
- Video presentation by neuroscientist Jay Giedd - Evolution and the Digital Revolution
- The Teenage Brain: Dr. Jay Giedd of the National Institute of Mental Health
Desentization articles
- Porn, Masturbation and Mojo: A Neuroscience Perspective
- Intoxicating Behaviors: 300 Vaginas = A Lot of Dopamine
- Has Evolution Trained Our Brains to Gorge on Food and Sex?
Internet porn is different
- Porn, Novelty, and the Coolidge effect
- Porn Then and Now: Welcome to Brain Training
- Are Porn Tube Sites Causing Erectile Dysfunction?
- Pure Novelty Spurs The Brain
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