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

• Published in: Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews Vol. 36; no. 6; pp. 1481 - 1509
• Main Authors: Stoléru, Serge, Fonteille, Véronique, Cornélis, Christel, Joyal, Christian, Moulier, Virginie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier 01.07.2012
• Subjects: Adult; Amygdala; Anatomy; Arousal - physiology; Basal ganglia; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - physiology; Brain architecture; Caudate nucleus; Cerebellum; Cortex (prefrontal); Ejaculation; Female; Functional Neuroimaging; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Libido - physiology; Male; Nervous system; Neural networks; Neuroimaging; Orgasm - physiology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reviews; Sexual behavior; Sexual Behavior - physiology; Substantia nigra; Visual stimuli; Brain; Homosexuality; Erection; Heterosexuality; Central nervous system; Libido; Review; Encephalon; Metaanalysis; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Functional neuroimaging; Woman; Human; Desire; Healthy subject; Sexual desire; Sexual behavior; Meta-analysis; Orgasm; Visual stimulus; Sexual arousal; Visual sexual stimuli; Positron emission tomography; Functional imaging; Emission tomography

In the last fifteen years, functional neuroimaging techniques have been used to investigate the neuroanatomical correlates of sexual arousal in healthy human subjects. In most studies, subjects have been requested to watch visual sexual stimuli and control stimuli. Our review and meta-analysis found...