ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2018
Ventral Striatal Reactivity in Compulsive Sexual Behaviors.
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- Sexual Dysregulation After Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke: A Critical Narrative Review of Neurobiology, Clinical Phenotypes, and Management.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) and problematic pornography use (PPU): A comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and expert-informed narrative review with suggested future directions.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Review
- Motivational Pathways Diverge Between Frequent and Problematic Pornography Use.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2026Article
- Two sides of the same coin? Prevalence and co-occurrence of binge eating disorder and compulsive sexual behavior disorder in a representative sample of the Polish population.Sexual medicine · 2025Article
- Global research status and trends of compulsive sexual behavior disorder: A comprehensive bibliometric analysis.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Review
- Enhanced conditioning and disrupted extinction processes in men struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- The Social Representations of Pornography Consumers Among Individuals in Romantic Relationships: Exploring the Roles of Gender, Relationship Satisfaction, and Sexual Satisfaction in a Romanian Sample.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Emotional interference and attentional bias in compulsive sexual behaviors disorder - An fMRI study on heterosexual males.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
- The Structure of Hypersexuality and Its Relation to Impulsivity.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Is There a Natural, Non-addictive, and Non-anti-reward, Safe, Gene-based Solution to Treat Reward Deficiency Syndrome? KB220 Variants vs GLP-1 Analogs.Journal of addiction psychiatry · 2024Article
- Neuroimaging evaluation of the long term impact of a novel paired meditation practice on brain function.Frontiers in neuroimaging · 2024Article
- Should problematic sexual behavior be viewed under the scope of addiction? A systematic review based on DSM-5 substance use disorder criteria.Addictive behaviors reports · 2023Review
- Clarifying and extending our understanding of problematic pornography use through descriptions of the lived experience.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Structural brain differences related to compulsive sexual behavior disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Article
- Time Goes Back-Time Perspective in Polish Men with Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder and Risky Sexual Behavior.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Potential Biological Markers and Treatment Implications for Binge Eating Disorder and Behavioral Addictions.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Erotic cue exposure increases neural reward responses without modulating temporal discounting.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Withdrawal and tolerance as related to compulsive sexual behavior disorder and problematic pornography use - Preregistered study based on a nationally representative sample in Poland.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry guidelines on the assessment and pharmacological treatment of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- Neural and behavioral correlates of sexual stimuli anticipation point to addiction-like mechanisms in compulsive sexual behavior disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
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Abstract
Compulsive Sexual Behaviors (CSB) are a reason to seek treatment. Given this reality, the number of studies on CSB has increased substantially in the last decade and the World Health Organization (WHO) included CSB in its proposal for the upcoming ICD-11. Sixty percent of the neuroimaging studies on CSB published since 2014 aimed to examine similarities and differences between brain mechanisms underlying CSB, gambling disorder, and substance use disorders. One of the crucial brain circuits involved in addiction is the reward system involving the ventral striatum (including nucleus accumbens). There are two distinct theories describing ventral striatal activity in addictions: Incentive Salience Theory (IST) and Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS). IST describes increased ventral striatal activations during the anticipation of addiction-related reward, while RDS describes decreased ventral striatal reactivity both during the anticipation of the reward and during the reward processing. Here, we aim to investigate how the findings on ventral striatal reactivity in CSB support each of these two addiction frameworks. For this purpose, we conducted a systematic review of neuroimaging studies on CSB available in Pubmed, EBSCO, and Google Scholar between 2005 and 2018. We found nine relevant research papers. Only four of these studies directly investigated processing of erotic cues and/or rewards and reported findings related to ventral striatum activations. Three of these studies indicate increased ventral striatal reactivity for erotic stimuli, which is consistent with IST and does not support predictions based on RDS. Therefore, the current state of this data suggest that CSB is related to increased ventral striatal reactivity during the anticipation of erotic stimuli.
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