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Methylation of HPA Axis Related Genes in Men With Hypersexual Disorder

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2017 in Psychoneuroendocrinology, Vol. 80, pp. 67-73

KEY FINDINGS
  • This study found that male patients with hypersexual disorder had reduced levels of methylation; this is an important integrator of neuroendocrine stress responses in the brain, modulating behavior and the autonomic nervous system.
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Longitudinal Associations Between the Use of Sexually Explicit Material and Adolescents’ Attitudes and Behaviors: A Narrative Review of Studies

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2017 in Journal of Adolescence, Vol. 57, pp. 119-133

KEY FINDINGS
  • This review article looked at 20 studies and found that viewing pornography influences the sexual attitudes and behaviors among teens.
  • Teen pornography use was found to impact self-esteem and mental health outcomes.
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Can Pornography be Addictive? An fMRI Study of Men Seeking Treatment for Problematic Pornography Use

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2017 in Neuropsychopharmacology, Vol. 42, pp. 2021–2031

KEY FINDINGS
  • This study suggests that, similar to what is observed in substance and gambling addictions, the neural and behavioral mechanisms associated with the anticipatory processing of cues specifically predicting erotic rewards relate importantly to clinically relevant features of PPU - these findings suggest that PPU may represent a behavioral addiction.
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Compulsive Sexual Behavior: Prefrontal And Limbic Volume and Interactions

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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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Executive Functioning of Sexually Compulsive and Non-Sexually Compulsive Men Before and After Watching an Erotic Video

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2017 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Vol. 14 (3), pp. 347-354

KEY FINDINGS
  • Sexually compulsive subjects and controls performed similarly at baseline, but after watching an erotic video, controls performed better in cognitive tests.
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Understanding and Predicting Classes of College Students Who Use Pornography

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2017 in Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 66, pp. 114-121

KEY FINDINGS
  • This study identified unique classifications of pornography users among college students based on their use patterns of pornography.
  • Different patterns of pornography use were found to be related to users' levels of self-esteem.
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Exploring the Relationship between Sexual Compulsivity and Attentional Bias to Sex-Related Words in a Cohort of Sexually Active Individuals

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2017 in European Addiction Research, Vol. 23(1), pp. 1-6

KEY FINDINGS
  • Among those with higher levels of sexual compulsivity, greater attentional bias was linked with lower levels of sexual experience.
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