Functional neuroimaging studies of sexual arousal and orgasm in healthy men and women: A review and meta-analysis

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1481-1509

  Stoléru, Serge ^a,b   Fonteille, Véronique ^a,b   Cornélis, Christel ^c   Joyal, Christian ^c   Moulier, Virginie ^a,b  

^a Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain; Erection; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Functional neuroimaging; Heterosexuality; Homosexuality; Libido; Meta analysis; Orgasm; Positron emission tomography; Sexual arousal; Sexual behavior; Sexual desire; Visual sexual stimuli

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CLAUSTRUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; EJACULATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FRONTAL PREMOTOR CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; INSULA; LATERAL OCCIPITOTEMPORAL; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; ORGASM DISORDER; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULATION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMUS; VISUAL SEXUAL STIMULI;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; LIBIDO; MALE; ORGASM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84859881610     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.03.006     Document Type: Review

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