Dopamine: Helping Males Copulate for at Least 200 Million Years: Theoretical Comment on Kleitz-Nelson et al. (2010)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 877-880

  Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Dopamine; Hypothalamus; Male; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; DOPAMINE; STEROID HORMONE;

APPETITE; ASSOCIATION; COPULATION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; QUAIL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 78650152241     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021823     Document Type: Note

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