Unconscious sexual desire: fMRI and EEG evidence from self-expansion theory to mirror neurons;Inconscient et désir sexuel: Évidences en IRMf et EEG de la théorie d'expansion de soi aux neurones miroirs

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 6, Issue 241, 2010, Pages 620-624

  Ortigue, Stephanie ^a   Bianchi Demicheli, Francesco ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Unité d'Endocrinologie Gynécologique et de Medecine de la Reproduction HUG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXCITATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROBIOLOGY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARIETAL LOBE; REVIEW; REWARD; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DESIRE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIBIDO; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEURONS;

EID: 77951675407     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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