Brain processing of visual sexual stimuli in human males

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 162-177

  Redouté, Jérôme ^a,c   Stoléru, Serge ^b   Grégoire, Marie Claude ^a   Costes, Nicolas ^a   Cinotti, Luc ^a   Lavenne, Frank ^a   Le Bars, Didier ^a   Forest, Maguelone G ^b   Pujol, Jean François ^a  

^a Biomedical Cyclotron   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Emission computed; Emotions; Erotica; Gyrus cinguli; Limbic system; Motivation; Prefrontal cortex; Sex behavior; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLAUSTRUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMOTIONS; EROTICA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PICTURES; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; PENILE ERECTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TESTOSTERONE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033768280     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0193(200011)11:3<162::AID-HBM30>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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