High-intensity Erotic Visual Stimuli De-activate the Primary Visual Cortex in Women

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1579-1587

  Huynh, Hieu K ^a   Beers, Caroline ^a   Willemsen, Antoon ^a   Lont, Erna ^a   Laan, Ellen ^b   Dierckx, Rudi ^a   Jansen, Monique ^c   Sand, Michael ^d   Weijmar Schultz, Willibrord ^b   Holstege, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^d BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; De activation; Low high intensity erotic stimuli; PET scanning; Primary visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; EROTISM; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84861820061     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02706.x     Document Type: Article

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