Performance of appetitive or consummatory components of male sexual behavior is mediated by different brain areas: A 2-deoxyglucose autoradiographic study

Neuroscience

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1261-1277

  Dermon, C R ^a   Stamatakis, A ^a   Tlemcani O ^b   Balthazart, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Res Grp Behav N   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Cerebral metabolic activity; Forebrain areas; Preoptic area; Reproductive behavior; Vocal control regions

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BIRD; BRAIN METABOLISM; CAGE; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERPEDUNCULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NUCLEUS; OPTIC TECTUM; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COTURNIX; DEOXYGLUCOSE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MOVEMENT; PREOPTIC AREA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0032757535     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00318-8     Document Type: Article

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