ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2021
Aberrant orbitofrontal cortex reactivity to erotic cues in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder.
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- Increased sensitivity for negative emotional images in individuals with problematic pornography use.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Alterations in voxel based morphometry and resting state functional connectivity in men with compulsive sexual behavior disorder in the Sex@Brain study.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Article
- Emotional processing deficits in individuals with problematic pornography use: Unpleasant bias and pleasant blunting.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Article
- Separating desire from prediction of outcome value.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2023Review
- Computational models of behavioral addictions: State of the art and future directions.Addictive behaviors · 2023Review
- Erotic cue exposure increases neural reward responses without modulating temporal discounting.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Neural cue-reactivity in pathological gambling as evidence for behavioral addiction: a systematic review.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Another failure of the latent disease model? The case of compulsive sexual behavior disorder •.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- Emerging experience with selected new categories in the ICD-11: complex PTSD, prolonged grief disorder, gaming disorder, and compulsive sexual behaviour disorder.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2022Article
- Differential P3 reactivity to pornographic versus natural rewards as a neural marker of reward imbalance in problematic pornography use in young heterosexual men.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsCompulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD) is characterized by increased reactivity to erotic reward cues. Cue-encoded reward parameters, such as type (e.g. erotic or monetary) or probability of anticipated reward, shape reward-related motivational processes, increase the attractiveness of cues and therefore might enhance maladaptive behavioral patterns in CSBD. Studies on the neural patterns of cue processing in individuals with CSBD have been limited mainly to ventral striatal responses. Therefore, here we aimed to examine the cue reactivity of multiple key structures in the brain's reward system, taking into account not only the type of predicted reward but also its probability.
methodsTwenty Nine men seeking professional help due to CSBD and 24 healthy volunteers took part in an fMRI study with a modified Incentive Delay Task with erotic and monetary rewards preceded by cues indicating a 25%, 50%, or 75% chance of reward. Analyses of functional patterns of activity related to cue type and probability were conducted on the whole-brain and ROI levels.
resultsIncreased anticipatory response to cues predictive of erotic rewards was observed among CSBD participants when compared to controls, in the ventral striatum and anterior orbitofrontal cortex (aOFC). The activity in aOFC was modulated by reward probability. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionsType of anticipated reward (erotic vs monetary) affects reward-related behavioral motivation in CSBD more strongly than reward probability. We present evidence of abnormal aOFC function in CSBD by demonstrating the recruitment of additional subsections of this region by erotic reward cues.
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