Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4272428 | The Journal of Sexual Medicine | 2009 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Despite the small sample size, the functional response patterns of the brain to sexual stimuli contained sufficient information to predict individual sexual orientation with high accuracy. These results suggest that fMRI-based classification methods hold promise for the diagnosis of paraphilic disorders (e.g., pedophilia). Ponseti J, Granert O, Jansen O, Wolff S, Mehdorn H, Bosinski H, and Siebner H. Assessment of sexual orientation using the hemodynamic brain response to visual sexual stimuli. J Sex Med 2009;6:1628-1634.
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Authors
Jorge PhD, Oliver MSc, Olav MD, Stephan MSc, Hubertus MD, Hartmut MD, Hartwig MD,