Functional neuroanatomy of sexual arousal

Male Sexual Dysfunction: Pathophysiology and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 39-54

  Mouras, Harold ^a   Stoléru, Serge ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

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