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2017 in The Lancet, Vol. 4(9), pp. 663-664
KEY FINDINGS
- In this review article, leading researchers conclude that the classification of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder as an addictive disorder is consistent with recent data.
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Voon, Valerie
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2017 in Human Brain Mapping, Vol. 38(3), pp. 1182-1190
KEY FINDINGS
- Compulsive sexual behavior is associated with elevated volumes in limbic regions relevant to motivational salience and emotion processing, and impaired functional connectivity between prefrontal control regulatory and limbic regions.
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2016 in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 10, pp. 154.
KEY FINDINGS
- Study participants with compulsive sexual behavior demonstrated enhanced sensitivity to reward outcomes with faster acquisition and greater perseveration with higher magnitude rewards.
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2016 in Neuropsychopharmacology, Vol. 41, pp. 385–386
KEY FINDINGS
- This review article looks at behavioral addiction studies related to compulsive sexual behavior and concludes that there are many overlapping features that exist between compulsive sexual behavior and substance use disorders.
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2016 in Journal of Psychiatric Research, Vol. 72, pp. 91-101
KEY FINDINGS
- This study shows that compulsive sexual behavior individuals have a dysfunctional enhanced preference for sexual novelty possibly mediated by greater cingulate habituation along with a generalized enhancement of conditioning to rewards.
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2014 in PLoS ONE 9(8): e105476
KEY FINDINGS
- This study shows that compared to healthy volunteers, compulsive sexual behavior subjects have enhanced attentional bias to explicit cues but not neutral cues particularly for early stimuli latency...this provides support for an incentive motivation theory of addiction underlying the aberrant response towards sexual cues in compulsive sexual behavior.
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2014 in PLoS ONE 9(7): e102419. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102419
KEY FINDINGS
- Relative to healthy volunteers, compulsive sexual behavior individuals had greater desire, but similar liking scores in response to the sexually explicit videos; this dissociation between desire or wanting and liking is consistent with theories of incentive motivation underlying CSB as in drug addictions.