Relationship of Internet gaming disorder with dissociative experience in Italian university students (2018)

Ann Gen Psychiatry. 2018 Jun 15;17:28. doi: 10.1186/s12991-018-0198-y. eCollection 2018. De Pasquale C1, Dinaro C2, Sciacca F1. Abstract The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to investigate the prevalence of Internet gaming disorder (IGD) among Italian university students and (b) to explore the associations between the former and dissociative phenomena. The sample included 221 […]

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Internet Pornography Use Among Collegiate Women: Gender Attitudes, Body Monitoring, and Sexual Behavior (2018)

Maas, Megan K., and Shannamar Dewey. SAGE Open 8, no. 2 (2018): 2158244018786640. Abstract Pornography use has become more commonplace since the advent of high-speed Internet, yet there is little investigation that is exclusively targeted to women’s use of pornography. Given the paradox of viewing mainstream Internet pornography, which often portrays the objectification of and […]

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Effect of Pornography Exposure on Junior High School Teenagers of Pontianak in 2008 (2010)

Translated from Malaysian Hubs-Asia 9, no. 2 (2010). Euis Supriati, Sandra Fikawati Abstract Adolescent is a vulnerable group in reproductive health area. This period is marked by strong desire to try and explore new things. Pornography is a medium which can influence adolescent toward high risk sexual behaviour. The exposure to pornographic materials is a […]

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What the Brain “Likes:” Neural Correlates of Providing Feedback on Social Media (2018)

Lauren E Sherman Leanna M Hernandez Patricia M Greenfield Mirella Dapretto Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsy051, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsy051 Abstract Evidence increasingly suggests that neural structures that respond to primary and secondary rewards are also implicated in the processing of social rewards. The “Like” – a popular feature on social media – shares features with both […]

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Pornography as a Public Health Issue: Promoting Violence and Exploitation of Children, Youth, and Adults (2018)

PDF of full paper: Pornography as a Public Health Issue: Promoting Violence and Exploitation of Children, Youth, and Adults Taylor, Elisabeth (2018) Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence: Vol. 3: Iss. 2, Article 8. Abstract The pornography industry is expanding exponentially as a result of ongoing technological advances. The ability to stream videos […]

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Risk or Release?: Porn Use Trajectories and the Accumulation of Sexual Partners (2018)

Rasmussen, Kyler R., and Alex Bierman. Social Currents (2018): 2329496518780929. Abstract A central question in the study of pornography consumption is whether consumption influences risky sexual behavior. In this research, we focus on one key aspect of risky sexual behavior, the accumulation of sexual partners. Using longitudinal latent class analysis of a nationally representative sample, […]

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Intermittent, extended access to preferred food leads to escalated food reinforcement and cyclic whole-body metabolism in rats: Sex differences and individual vulnerability (2018)

Physiol Behav. 2018 Aug 1;192:3-16. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.04.001. Spierling SR1, Kreisler AD2, Williams CA2, Fang SY2, Pucci SN2, Kines KT2, Zorrilla EP3. Abstract Compulsive binge eating is a hallmark of binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa and is implicated in some obesity cases. Eating disorders are sexually dimorphic, with females more often affected than males. Animal […]

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Intermittent, extended access to preferred food leads to escalated food reinforcement and cyclic whole-body metabolism in rats: Sex differences and individual vulnerability (2018)

Spierling SR1, Kreisler AD2, Williams CA2, Fang SY2, Pucci SN2, Kines KT2, Zorrilla EP3. Abstract Compulsive binge eating is a hallmark of binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa and is implicated in some obesity cases. Eating disorders are sexually dimorphic, with females more often affected than males. Animal models of binge-like eating based on intermittent […]

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‘I see it everywhere’: young Australians unintended exposure to sexual content online (2018)

Larissa Lewis, Julie Mooney Somers, Rebecca Guy, Lucy Watchirs-Smith and S. Rachel Skinner Sexual Health – https://doi.org/10.1071/SH17132 Submitted: 1 August 2017  Accepted: 9 February 2018   Published online: 21 June 2018 Abstract Background: There are wide variations in the reported prevalence of exposure to sexual content online, but the literature tends not to distinguish between […]

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Longitudinal Changes in Neural Connectivity in Patients With Internet Gaming Disorder: A Resting-State EEG Coherence Study (2018)

Front Psychiatry. 2018 Jun 7;9:252. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00252. PMID: 29930524 PMCID: PMC5999751 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00252 Sunyoung Park1, Hyera Ryu1, Ji-Yoon Lee1, Aruem Choi1, Dai-Jin Kim2, Sung Nyun Kim3* and Jung-Seok Choi1,4* Aims: The present study investigated neural connectivity associated with treatment responses in patients with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) using resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) coherence analyses. Methods: We […]

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