Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10306812 | Psychoneuroendocrinology | 2005 | 22 Pages |
Abstract
Results. Regions responding differentially both in untreated patients compared with controls and in untreated patients compared with themselves under treatment were the right orbitofrontal cortex, insula and claustrum, where the activation was higher in controls than in untreated patients and where activation increased under treatment, and the left inferior frontal gyrus, that demonstrated a deactivation only in controls and in patients under treatment. That these responses appear to depend on testosterone indicates that these regions mediate sexual arousal and not only a process of general emotional or motivational arousal.
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Authors
Jérôme Redouté, Serge Stoléru, Michel Pugeat, Nicolas Costes, Frank Lavenne, Didier Le Bars, Henri Dechaud, Luc Cinotti, Jean-François Pujol,