BodyWisdomVideos's video: Things You Didn t Know About Porn - Part 3

The target audience for this video series is 10-11 year old boys. Science based videos for an older audience can be found on our channel. For more information visit our non-commercial, non-religious website - www.yourbrainonporn.com What experts are saying about porn, addiction and the organization of the brain: "The addictiveness of Internet pornography is not a metaphor. All addiction involves long-term, sometimes lifelong, neuroplastic change in the brain. ... The same surge of dopamine that thrills us also consolidates the neuronal connections." —Norman Doidge, MD, "The Brain That Changes Itself." "A lot of addiction is the result of experience ... repetitive, high-emotion, high-frequency experience." —Howard Shaffer, Harvard psychologist "Think about it. If you're designing a species and you want to make sure it does things that are crucial for survival—like eating and reproducing—you create a system that's all about pleasure so it wants to repeat those things. Then you have dopamine make those behaviors become automatic. It's brilliant, really." —Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse "The notion that emotions involve relatively primitive circuits that are conserved throughout mammalian evolution seems right on target. Furthermore, the idea that cognitive processes might involve other circuits, and might function relatively independent of emotional circuits, at least in some circumstances, also seems correct. These functional ideas are worth holding on to, even if we abandon the limbic system as a structural theory of the emotional brain." —Joseph LeDoux, neuroscientist and author