Mixing pleasures: Review of the effects of drugs on sex behavior in humans and animal models

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-162

  Frohmader, Karla S ^a   Pitchers, Kyle K ^a   Balfour, Margaret E ^b   Coolen, Lique M ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Amphetamine; Cocaine; Ecstasy; Marijuana; Mesolimbic dopamine system; Methamphetamine; Morphine; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; ALCOHOL; AMPHETAMINE; BUPRENORPHINE; CANNABIS; COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; METHADONE; METHAMPHETAMINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALADJUSTMENT; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OPIATE ADDICTION; ORGASM DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; REWARD; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 77953480972     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.11.009     Document Type: Review

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