Conclusion: The elevated inter-hemispheric insula FC is found to be associated with impulsivity and might explain why it is involved in IGD. The attenuated frontostriatal suggests that the emotion-driven gaming urge through nucleus accumbens could not be well regulated by the frontal lobe of subjects with IGD.Eur Addict Res 2016;22:192-200 (Source: European Addiction Research)MedWorm Sponsor Messa
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You live in a primative culture and society…..with no education or trade……… In the third world this means that you die early of some relatively easily preventable cause……..or at least a cause that is easily prevented in a developed country. Every year, in africa, there are 10’s or 000’s of people blinded by an eye infection that ultimately causes the swollen eyelids to turn inward
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Background: Attachment theory can contribute to the understanding of the pathogenesis of Internet addiction. Method: An online survey was carried out to assess socio-demographic characteristics, online activity, attachment style, symptoms of Internet addiction and online relationship motives. Results: Participants with secure and insecure attachment style differed in their tendency to abusive Int
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For decades, scientists believed that addictions were driven by the pleasurable effects of the substance/behavior in question – that addicts compulsively seek the enjoyable “addictive effects” that make life fun, fun, and more fun. It was thought that addicted individuals become unduly tied to this pleasure train, seeking the feeling of “being high” even when their lives are falling apart as a res
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“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important — creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.” — Steve J
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