A porn study done in San Antonio found that watching pornography is as addictive as cocaine, meth, and alcohol. It can also lead to social problems in teenagers.But what does it do to people who study porn?
Dr. Donald Hilton, Jr. with the American Board of Neurological Surgery was one of the researchers. He discovered the frontal lobe of the brain shrinks in people who are addicted to porn. Dr. Hilton says that is the same thing that happens in drug addicts and alcoholics.
By the way, I should note that WOAI does not link to a copy of Hilton's study, so readers cannot easily find the original document to see if this is exactly what the doctor claims. I doubt this claim, and I doubt this study actually exists. I'm not even sure where WOAI got this story. The only other reference to Dr. Hilton and brain-shrinking porn that I could find is on an obscure blog. The entry here is full of odd, strange language that makes little sense, and the closing line suggests that Dr. Hilton is more of an evangelist than a scientist.
In a seminar on the impact of pornography on the brain damage, nerve surgeon's Hospital San Antonio, United States, Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD said that adiksi result in the middle of the front of the brain called the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) physical decline.Weird stuff.
Depreciation brain networks that produce dopamine (chemical trigger happy feeling) that, according to him, cause workplace disruption neurotransmiter ie brain chemical substances that act as the sender of the message.
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According to Hilton, brain damage due addicted pornography is the most weight, more weight of the cocaine addicted.
However, he said, there is now hope that brain damage can be restored to near normal with the various methods of healing.
Therapy that can be used to restore the addicted brain damage as a result, according to him, among others, the personal motivation to drive the spirit of people to liberate themselves from the addicted, and the creation of a safe environment for the habitue drastically reduce access to pornography.
Besides, he added, with the formation of support groups and counselors therapeutist therapy increased spirituality and its impact is also very meaningful in the recovery effort.
"Research shows religious spirituality of any kind, will speed the recovery process," he said.
7 comments:
There is a guy with that name in San Antonio, in the medical center... but couldn't find anything online authored by him that would jive with that wierd stuff on the blog you found.
Thanks for the information on how brain damage can be caused by porn. I've never heard anything like that before now, maybe I'll do some research on the subject.
We recently wrote an article on cognitive theories at Brain Blogger. The brain is a very mysterious thing and no one knows exactly how it works. So how do we know how brain brain damage works?
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Kelly
Actually I know this man and his wife and his family. He and his wife work with people who are addicted to porn and are trying to get over their additction. He noticed traits that were similar, and because he was a brain surgeon already, he made a study. Actually, other doctors are now begining to study it. They're finding that addiction isn't just something you take into your body. It also can be caused by things seen. The reason why you probably haven't seen a lot on his work is because his book just barely published and it's not in regular book stores. You'd have to actually order it in order to read it. But once you do, you find that it is very much researched.
Just because he studied this, by the way, doesn't actually mean that he actually looked at porn. Which he didn't.
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