Researchers found less grey matter in the brains of men who watched large amounts of sexually explicit material, according to a new study from the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.
The research, which appeared Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, could not determine if porn actually caused the brain to shrink however, and the authors called for additional study on the topic.
"Future studies should investigate the effects of pornography longitudinally or expose naive participants to pornography and investigate the causal effects over time," said researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
The institute recruited 64 male subjects aged 21-45, "with a broad range of pornography consumption." The men were not told initially that the research was monitoring their brains on porn, rather that it was "a scientific study including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements."
The men were told during a later phone interview that questions about pornography would be part of the research, and none dropped out. Full story...
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The research, which appeared Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, could not determine if porn actually caused the brain to shrink however, and the authors called for additional study on the topic.
"Future studies should investigate the effects of pornography longitudinally or expose naive participants to pornography and investigate the causal effects over time," said researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
The institute recruited 64 male subjects aged 21-45, "with a broad range of pornography consumption." The men were not told initially that the research was monitoring their brains on porn, rather that it was "a scientific study including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements."
The men were told during a later phone interview that questions about pornography would be part of the research, and none dropped out. Full story...
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