The human sexual response cycle: Brain imaging evidence linking sex to other pleasures

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-81

  Georgiadis, J R ^a   Kringelbach, M L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arousal; Brain networks; Emotion; Food; Interest; Object processing; Orbitofrontal cortex; Orgasm; Pleasure; Reward; Sex; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE; NALOXONE; SEX PHEROMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTICIPATION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLAUSTRUM; CLITORIS; CORPUS STRIATUM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; EJACULATION; EUPHORIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FRONTAL OPERCULUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULA; INTIMACY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTIVATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSIC; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ORBITAL CORTEX; ORGASM; OVULATION; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL OPERCULUM; PEDOPHILIA; PELVIS FLOOR; PENIS; PENIS ERECTION; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PLEASURE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POST EJACULATORY REFRACTORY PERIOD; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; REFRACTORY PERIOD; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; REWARD; SATIETY; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THALAMUS; VISION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGING; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN; EATING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORGASM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SATIATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEXUALITY;

EID: 84861795359     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: 18735118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2012.05.004     Document Type: Review

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