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Stark, Rudolf

Subjective Reward Value of Visual Sexual Stimuli Is Coded in Human Striatum and Orbitofrontal Cortex

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2020 in Behavioural Brain Research

KEY FINDINGS
  • Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this neuroscientific study shows the connections between problematic pornography consumption and preference toward specific and highly-arousing content, indicating possible tolerance development.
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Tendencies Toward Internet-Pornography-Use Disorder: Differences in Men and Women Regarding Attentional Biases to Pornographic Stimuli

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2018 in Journal of Behavioral Addictions,7(3):574-583

KEY FINDINGS
  • The results of this study showed a relationship between attentional bias and symptom severity of Internet-pornography-disorder partially mediated by indicators for cue-reactivity and craving.
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Predictors for (Problematic) Use of Internet Sexually Explicit Material: Role of Trait Sexual Motivation and Implicit Approach Tendencies Towards Sexually Explicit Material

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2017 in Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, Vol. 24(3), pp. 180-202

KEY FINDINGS
  • This study found that trait sexual motivation and implicit approach tendencies towards sexual material are predictors of problematic use of sexually explicit material.
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Altered Appetitive Conditioning and Neural Connectivity in Subjects With Compulsive Sexual Behavior

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2016 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Vol. 13 (4), pp. 627-636

KEY FINDINGS
  • This study found that neural correlates of appetitive conditioning and neural connectivity are altered in patients with compulsive sexual behavior and that these are a marker for impaired emotion regulation.
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