[Also see Vibrators and “Dead Vagina Syndrome” (research and mainstream press)] Can you use sex toys or Internet erotica in moderation? The answer lies in your brain—not in any external advice, wisdom or dogma. It depends on the state of your reward circuitry, your brain’s ancient appetite mechanism. Sure, your brain may be particularly vulnerable […]
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It’s a common and erroneous belief that addiction equals “harm” to the brain, or that addiction is caused by “damage” to the brain. While certain addictive substances (meth, alcohol) can be neurotoxic, addiction is caused by a specific constellation of brain changes that are not necessarily classified as “brain damage”. Debunking the damage as addiction […]
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It may not make you go blind, but Italian scientists have identified a worrying side-effect of watching too much pornography.
Researchers said Thursday that young men who indulge in “excessive consumption” of Internet porn gradually become immune to explicit images, the ANSA news agency reported.
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The Journal of Neuroscience, 1 June 2011, 31(22): 7960-7966; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1006-11.2011
Yan Liu1,*, Kimberly A. Young1,*, J. Thomas Curtis2, Brandon J. Aragona3, and Zuoxin Wang1
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1.1Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306,
2.2Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Center for Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa Oklahoma 74107, and
3.3Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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COMMENTS: One of many peer-reviewed studies that state the obvious: behavioral and drug addictions extensively overlap in neural pathways, brain mechanisms, and behaviors.
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COMMENT: Adolescents with internet addiction have decreased gray matter in portions of the frontal cortex. Decreases in size and functioning the frontal cortex are found in all addiction processes. I wonder about the extent of porn use in the Internet addiction group. Another example of a non-drug addiction causing brain changes similar to substance abuse disorders.
Eur J Radiol. 2009 Nov 17.
Zhou Y, Lin FC, Du YS, Qin LD, Zhao ZM, Xu JR, Lei H.
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Department of Radiology, RenJi Hospital, Jiao Tong University Medical School, Shanghai 200127, PR China.
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COMMENT: Adolescents with internet addiction have decreased gray matter in portions of the frontal cortex. Decreases in size and functioning the frontal cortex are found in all addiction processes. I wonder about the extent of porn use in the Internet addiction group. Another example of a non-drug addiction causing brain changes similar to substance abuse disorders.
Eur J Radiol. 2009 Nov 17.
Zhou Y, Lin FC, Du YS, Qin LD, Zhao ZM, Xu JR, Lei H.
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Department of Radiology, RenJi Hospital, Jiao Tong University Medical School, Shanghai 200127, PR China.
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COMMENTS: Simply a well done paper on addiction mechanisms.
Full Study: Neurobiologic Processes in Drug Reward and Addiction
Bryon Adinoff, MD
Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2004; 12(6): 305–320.
doi: 10.1080/10673220490910844.
Bryon Adinoff, From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and VA North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, TX.
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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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