Assessment of sexual orientation using the hemodynamic brain response to visual sexual stimuli

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1628-1634

  Ponseti, Jorge ^a   Granert, Oliver ^a   Jansen, Olav ^a   Wolff, Stephan ^a   Mehdorn, Hubertus ^a   Bosinski, Hartmut ^a   Siebner, Hartwig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Classification; fMRI; Pedophilia; Phallometry; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 66649101049     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.01233.x     Document Type: Article

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