Impact of generalized brain arousal on sexual behavior

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2265-2270

  Weil, Zachary M ^a   Zhang, Qiuyu ^a   Hornung, Allison ^a   Blizard, David ^b   Pfaff, Donald W ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavioral genetics; Generalized arousal; Male sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BREEDING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76649090982     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914014107     Document Type: Article

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