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For questions about the use and abuse of substances or behaviors that provoke a consequence

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Is there a formal name for the compulsive and recurrent urges to pick one's nose in order to...

Excoriation disorder (ED) formerly known as dermatillomania, and more popularly as Skin Picking Disorder (SPD): a mental disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pick at one's own skin, oft …
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Study about addiction to placebo

aware of some (old) case reports, best summarized in this 1978 1-para letter-to-the editor (of AJP): SIR: I would like to comment on the interesting paper ‘‘A Note on the Addictive Personality: Addiction
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Can addiction develop to the absence of a normally present negative stimulus?

I think this involves more a discussion of what addiction is (or how it's conceptualized) rather than anything about the neuroscience of rewards and aversion. … to persons with addiction [Cupini, 2010], some authors have suggested that mechanisms involved in dependence processes also apply to MOH [Fumal, 2006]. …
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Long term cocaine use and personality change - Scientific references?

I couldn't find a longitudinal study on this, which would be direct evidence, but it seems plausible due to circumstantial evidence: Just taking a dose to lowers the perception of facial sadness (exp …
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Beyond CBT and MBI, what are effective behavioral interventions for modern lifestyle addicti...

Alas there's not much in the way of interventions that can curb impulsivity on the spot. Quoting from a somewhat dated but widely cited review, Moeller et al., 2001: Of the operant therapies used …
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