Neuroimaging of sexual arousal: Research and clinical utility

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-33

  Sumich, A L ^a   Kumari, V ^a   Sharma, T ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLAUSTRUM; EJACULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INSULA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OXYGEN TENSION; PARIETAL LOBE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0038312038     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.2003.64.1.2378     Document Type: Review

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