Many recognize that several behaviors potentially affecting the reward circuitry in human brains lead to a loss of control and other symptoms of addiction in at least some individuals. Regarding Internet addiction, neuroscientific research supports the assumption that underlying neural processes are similar to substance addiction. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has recognized one su...

We examined police occurrence and criminal records data for a sample of 201 registered male child pornography offenders originally reported by Seto and Eke (Sex Abus J Res Treat 17:201-210, 2005), extending the average follow-up time for this sample to 5.9 years. In addition, we obtained the same data for another 340 offenders, increasing our full sample to 541 men, with a total average follow-...

Despite recent advances in the design of features to improve automated human action recognition, color information has so far been overlooked. Nevertheless, color has been proven an important element to the success of automated recognition of objects/scenes and segmentation. For object and scene recognition in static images, robustness to photometric variations has been achieved by describing l...

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 86, Number 1 ◆ July 1, 2012 Case Scenario A 46-year-old man with no previous medical problems presents with depressed mood and difficulty initiating sleep. After further review, I discover that the patient recently separated from his wife and fears losing his job. He reluctantly mentions that the problems started when his wife became aware of several years of escalating ...

Addiction has been a divisive term when applied to various compulsive sexual behaviors (CSBs), including obsessive use of pornography. Despite a growing acceptance of the existence of natural or process addictions based on an increased understanding of the function of the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward systems, there has been a reticence to label CSBs as potentially addictive. While pathologica...

Very little research has attempted to describe normal human variation in female genitalia, and no studies have compared the visual images that women might use in constructing their ideas of average and acceptable genital morphology to see if there are any systematic differences. The objective of the present work was to determine if visual depictions of the vulva differed according to their sour...