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PUBLISHED
2017 in Telandana Journal of Psychiatry
KEY FINDINGS
- This review of 59 studies exploring the neurobiological basis of pornography addiction finds that pornography addiction fits with other models of addiction.
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Addiction
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PUBLISHED
2017 in Chapter in Internet Addiction: Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology, and Behavioral Economics
KEY FINDINGS
- A review chapter that concludes that all the neurobiological insights from existing studies support the concept of a pornography addiction.
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PUBLISHED
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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PUBLISHED
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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PUBLISHED
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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PUBLISHED
2016 in Psychiatry Research, Vol. 246, pp. 230-235
KEY FINDINGS
- This study found that study participants with problematic sexual behavior showed differences in impulsivity, decision making, spatial working memory, problem solving, and emotional dysregulation - these associations suggest a more salient impact than typical sexual behavior.
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PUBLISHED
2016 in Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 53(6), pp. 689-700
KEY FINDINGS
- Participants who abstained from pornography use demonstrated lower delay discounting than participants who abstained from their favorite food. The finding suggests that Internet pornography is a sexual reward that contributes to delay discounting differently than other natural rewards.
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PUBLISHED
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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PUBLISHED
2016 in Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, Vol. 23(4), pp. 342-360.
KEY FINDINGS
- Results of this study showed an effect of subjective craving on tendencies towards cybersex addiction, moderated by associative learning. Thus, these findings indicate that such interactions might be crucial for the development of cybersex addiction.
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PUBLISHED
2016 in Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Vol. 5(2), pp. 179–191
KEY FINDINGS
- Pornography addiction was found to be linked to depression and anxiety.
- Addictive use of pornography was found to be linked to other substance addictions and behavioral addictions such as alcohol, cannabis, gambling and video game use.