Today is considered before consuming podcast as a combination of a few different interviews

five the new drug is conducted with mental health professionals.

This episode focuses on how pornography consumption has been shown to rewire the brain

and negatively impact those who are consuming porn.

Please enjoy this bonus episode of Consider Before Consuming.

Ever since pornography appeared on the internet, it has become more accessible than ever before.

This is reflected in pornography consumption, which is on the rise globally.

But what effect does the frequent consumption of pornography have on the human brain?

A joint study by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development,

and the Psychiatric University Hospital Charate at St. Hedwig Hospital answered that question.

Dr. Simone Coon, who was a neuroscientist and psychologist and helped to facilitate the study,

explains some of what she found. So we put people in the scanner and looked at their brain activity.

We were interested in what effects do potentially long-term usage of pornographic material have on brain structure.

So basically we found in our study that the grey matter in the reward centre is generally

smaller in those people who watch more porn.

What we also did is look at how the brain region that is smaller in structure, namely

the reward region, is connected to other parts in the brain.

We found that the more porn people watch, the less well,

the reward region is connected to prefrontal cortex. That their prefrontal cortex was less

well able to control activity in the reward region. So the connection between prefrontal cortex,

that is the breaking mechanism onto the reward

system was less strong.

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