The effects of sympathetic activation on physiological and subjective sexual arousal in women

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 651-664

  Meston, Cindy M ^a   Gorzalka, Boris B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EROTISM; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; VAGINA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LIBIDO; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PULSE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0029040113     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0005-7967(95)00006-J     Document Type: Article

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