COMMENTS: The sweeping new ASAM “definition of addiction” (August 2011) ends the debate over the existence behavioral addictions, including sex and porn addiction. This new definition of addiction, which includes behavioral addictions, such as food, gambling and sex, ASAM unequivocally states behavioral addictions involve similar brain alterations and neural pathways as do drug addictions. We […]
Comments: A review by one of the top researchers stating that natural rewards and addiction overlap.
Full Study: The Neuroscience of Natural Rewards Relevance to Addictive Drugs
The Journal of Neuroscience, 1 May 2002, 22(9): 3306-3311; Ann E. Kelley1 and Kent C. Berridge2
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1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin 53719, and
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Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Feb;1187:294-315.
Frascella J, Potenza MN, Brown LL, Childress AR.
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Division of Clinical Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
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UPDATES: Many studies have been published since this article was written. See this List of Internet & Video Game Brain Studies. Gaming disorder is defined in the draft 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) The world’s most widely used medical diagnostic manual, The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), contains a new diagnosis […]
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Ashley N. Gearhardt, Carlos M. Grilo, Ralph J. DiLeone, Kelly D. Brownell, Marc N. Potenza
Article first published online: 14 FEB 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03301.x
© 2011 The Authors, Addiction © 2011 Society for the Study of Addiction
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COMMENTS: This article clearly shows that those with Internet addiction develop brain abnormalities that parallel those found in substance abusers. Researchers found a 10-20% reduction is frontal cortex gray matter in adolescents with Internet addiction. Hypofrontality is the common term for this change in brain structure. It is a key marker for all addiction processes. […]
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This is the number one question we get from guys suffering porn-induced ED. However, we cannot predict how long it will take for your erectile health to return. Among those who stick with it, progression is surprisingly similar—when guys completely stop using pornography, and masturbation as well for a time, because it is initially so closely associated with porn fantasy.
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“I think it’s safe to say my libido is back, but it was eight weeks of no porn, masturbation or erotica, and minimal fantasy.” —Recovered user
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[First post] I’ll keep my story brief (27yrs, male). Over the past several years, I’ve suffered increasingly worse symptoms of ED. After a breakup with my first love at 21, I began to experience soft erections whenever a condom was involved, but fine without it. Around 23, I began dating a girl and I couldn’t […]
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COMMENTS: Another study demonstrating that novelty is its own reward and that the unexpected raises dopamine. One attribute that makes Internet porn different from porn of the past is the extreme novelty it provides along with the unexpected.
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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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