Online Pornography’s Effects, and a New Way to Fight Them: Wall Street Journal

There is a fix for the brain-altering effects of pornography It was suspiciously warm, the reception given to a study published a week ago in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. A survey of 4,600 young people in the Netherlands, aged 15 to 25, found the behavioral impact of pornography—most of it online now—to be surprisingly […]

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A role for synaptic plasticity in the adolescent development of executive function (2013)

Transl Psychiatry. 2013 March; 3(3): e238. Published online 2013 March 5. doi:  10.1038/tp.2013.7 PMCID: PMC3625918 L D Selemon1,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Adolescent brain maturation is characterized by the emergence of executive function mediated by the prefrontal cortex, e.g., goal planning, inhibition of impulsive behavior […]

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Decreased functional brain connectivity in adolescents with internet addiction (2013)

PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e57831. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057831. Hong SB, Zalesky A, Cocchi L, Fornito A, Choi EJ, Kim HH, Suh JE, Kim CD, Kim JW, Yi SH. Source Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Parkville, Victoria, Australia ; Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Parkville, Victoria, Australia ; Division of […]

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