I was alerted to Ley’s comment and asked to respond directly on this thread: The David Ley comment (posted January 30, 2016). Since my response was blocked, I decided to post an easier to read version on YBOP. Before I address David Ley’s claims it must be noted that he consistently fails to mention the […]
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Biomed Res Int. 2014; 2014: 315062. Published online 2014 Jul 14. doi: 10.1155/2014/315062 PMCID: PMC4122146 Susana Jiménez-Murcia, 1 , 2 , 3 ,* Fernando Fernández-Aranda, 1 , 2 , 3 Roser Granero, 2 , 4 Mariano Chóliz, 5 Melania La Verde, 6 Eugenio Aguglia, 6 Maria S. Signorelli, 6 Gustavo M. Sá, 7 Neus Aymamí, […]
Link to full paper Nora D. Volkow, M.D., George F. Koob, Ph.D., and A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D. N Engl J Med 2016; 374:363-371 January 28, 2016 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1511480 This article reviews scientific advances in the prevention and treatment of substance-use disorder and related developments in public policy. In the past two decades, research has increasingly […]
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Citation: Translational Psychiatry (2016) 6, e721; doi:10.1038/tp.2015.215 Published online 26 January 2016 M Park1, J-S Choi1,2, S M Park1, J-Y Lee1,2, H Y Jung1,2, B K Sohn1,2, S N Kim2, D J Kim3 and J S Kwon2 1Department of Psychiatry, SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea 3Department of […]
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A new article co-authored by a Virginia Commonwealth University professor suggests that pornography has become a primary source of sexual education, and has a tangible influence on the sex lives of young adults. The researchers, including Jennifer Johnson, Ph.D., a professor in Department of Sociology of the College of Humanities and Sciences, surveyed 487 college […]
Mom’s weight during pregnancy shapes baby’s health By Laura Beil 1:00pm, January 12, 2016 Obesity at conception or during pregnancy is a big problem that’s getting bigger: New evidence says a child’s mental health could be at stake. Magazine issue: Vol. 189, No. 2, January 23, 2016, p. 22 When Elinor Sullivan was a postdoctoral fellow […]
Behav Neurosci. 2015 Dec 21. Mlewski EC, Arias C, Paglini G. Abstract Sensitization to psychostimulants is strongly influenced by the environmental context in which the drug is administered and little is known about the molecular mechanisms that regulate this process. Chronic treatment with psychostimulants has been shown to upregulate the expression of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 […]
“How Internet Porn Affects the Brain” is a 2015 updated version of the original YBOP 6-part series. A Polish translation of this presentation Supporting materials for this presentation Current state of the research Porn/sex addiction? This page lists 55 neuroscience-based studies (MRI, fMRI, EEG, neuropsychological, hormonal). All provide strong support for the addiction model as […]
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In 2014 Your Brain on Porn made a video on PIED – Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction. This page sets out the science behind our video. Anatomy & physiology teacher Gary Wilson explains the physiology of erections, how overstimulation via today’s Internet porn can create erectile dysfunction (even in young men), and how others have recovered. For […]
A David and Goliath battle involving a billion-dollar pornography website: "The book relates how, through investigative journalism, Mickelwait discovered that one of the world’s biggest websites was knowingly profiting from sex trafficking, and reveals her subsequent fight to
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