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Do you obsess over your appearance? Your brain might be wired abnormally

By Guest PostMay 17, 2013Scienceabnormal, alex leow, appearance, bdd, body dysmorphic disorder, brain, brain maps, donatello arienzo, graph theory, jamie feusner, jesse a brown, johnson gadelkarim, liang zhan, neurobiology of bdd, neuropsychopharmacology, obsess, patterns of connections, psychiatric condition, psychiatry, sarit hovav, ucla, university of Illinois, white matter networks

Body dysmorphic disorder is a disabling but often misunderstood psychiatric condition in which people perceive themselves to be disfigured and ugly, even though they look normal to others. New research at UCLA shows that these individuals have abnormalities in the underlying connections in their brains.

Dr. Jamie Feusner, the study’s senior author and a UCLA associate professor of psychiatry, and his colleagues report that individuals with BDD have, in essence, global “bad wiring” in their brains — that is, there are abnormal network-wiring patterns across the brain as a whole. (more…)

Science Supports Sex Addiction as a Legitimate Disorder

By Guest PostOctober 24, 2012Healthanxiety, Bible, bipolar disorder, commercial, cybersex, depression, disorder, dsm 5, healthy sex, heather mckittrick, hypersexual behavior, hypersexual disorder, life, margarit davtian, masturbation, mental health, pornography, psychiatric condition, psychiatric diagnose, psychiatry, radio, rory reid, scientific evidence, sex addiction, sex workers, sexual activity, sexual addiction, sexual behavior, sexual fantasies, sexually transmitted infection, sheila garos, substance abuse, talk show, timothy fong, ucla

UCLA researchers test proposed criteria for diagnosing ‘hypersexual disorder’

The idea that an individual might suffer from a sexual addiction is great fodder for radio talk shows, comedians and late night TV. But a sex addiction is no laughing matter. Relationships are destroyed, jobs are lost, lives ruined.

Yet psychiatrists have been reluctant to accept the idea of out-of-control sexual behavior as a mental health disorder because of the lack of scientific evidence.

Now a UCLA-led team of experts has tested a proposed set of criteria to define “hypersexual disorder,” also known as sexual addiction, as a new mental health condition. (more…)

History of Sexuality

By Guest PostMarch 6, 2012Cultureamerica, clinical treatment, gay man, happiness, heterosexual marriage, homosexuality, liberal protestant, mid twentieth century, norman vincent peale, prayer, psychiatry, rebecca davis, religious history, same sex, sexuality, university of delaware

UD prof honored for research on sexuality, religion in American history

Rebecca Davis, assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware, has received a Religious History Award from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network for her essay titled “‘My Homosexuality Is Getting Worse Every Day’: Norman Vincent Peale, Psychiatry, and the Liberal Protestant Response to Same-Sex Desires in Mid-Twentieth-Century America.”

Norman Vincent Peale, to whom the title refers, was famous for his self-help book The Power of Positive Thinking. As a renowned Protestant minister, he encouraged people to heal themselves through prayer and believed heterosexual marriage was essential to personal happiness. (more…)

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Do you obsess over your appearance? Your brain might be wired abnormally

Science Supports Sex Addiction as a Legitimate Disorder

History of Sexuality