Subcortical BOLD responses during visual sexual stimulation vary as a function of implicit porn associations in women

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 158-166

  Borg, Charmaine ^a   de Jong, Peter J ^a   Georgiadis, Janniko R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Basal forebrain; Bed nucleus of stria terminalis; Disgust; Midbrain; Pomography; Sexual penetration; Single target implicit association task; Visual sexual stimulation

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BED NUCLEUS OF STRIA TERMINALIS; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COITUS; DISGUST; EMOTION; EROTICA; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; MEMORY; MESENCEPHALON; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PORNOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PENETRATION; SINGLE-TARGET IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TASK; VISION; VISUAL SEXUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

BASAL FOREBRAIN; BED NUCLEUS OF STRIA TERMINALIS; DISGUST; MIDBRAIN; PORNOGRAPHY; SEXUAL PENETRATION; SINGLE-TARGET IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TASK; VISUAL SEXUAL STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; ATTITUDE; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COITUS; EMOTIONS; EROTICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSENCEPHALON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893402185     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss117     Document Type: Article

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