ReviewNature reviews. Urology2012
Sex for fun: a synthesis of human and animal neurobiology.
Review in Nature reviews. Urology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
65 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The impact of cell-based therapy on female sexual dysfunction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sexual medicine reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Rethinking sexual pleasure in research, health care and society.Nature reviews. Urology · 2026Review
- Current and future pharmacotherapy for female sexual dysfunction.Nature reviews. Urology · 2026Review
- Differential genetic background control state-dependent courtship ultrasonic vocalizations in mice.Neurogenetics · 2025Article
- Systems and Molecular Biology of Longevity and Preventive Medicine: Brain-Energy-Microbiome-Exposome Synergies in Blue Zones and the Cilento Case.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Apomorphine-induced disruption of paced mating behavior in female rats is attenuated by eticlopride, a D2 receptor antagonist, but not SCH 23390, a D1 receptor antagonist.Hormones and behavior · 2025Article
- Reproductive Toxicity Induced by Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors: A Pharmacovigilance Analysis From 2004 to 2023 Based on the FAERS Database.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
- Prefrontal-Limbic Circuitry Is Associated With Reward Sensitivity in Nonhuman Primates.Biological psychiatry · 2024Article
- Assessment and treatment of compulsive sexual behavior disorder: a sexual medicine perspective.Sexual medicine reviews · 2024Review
- Inflammation as a Potential Mechanism Contributing to Sexual Functioning Following Initiation of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy.Current sexual health reports · 2024Article
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- Sexual coordination in a whole-brain map of prairie vole pair bonding.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Sexual functioning in women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea: exploring the relevance of an underlying polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)-phenotype.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2023Article
- Comparison of predictive effect of the dietary inflammatory index and empirically derived food-based dietary inflammatory index on the menopause-specific quality of life and its complications.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- A circuit-based approach to modulate hypersexuality in Parkinson's disease.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2023Article
- The endogenous cannabinoid system modulates male sexual behavior expression.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
- Electroacupuncture for psychogenic erectile dysfunction: A resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study exploring the alteration of fractional amplitude of low frequency fluctuation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Altered Functional Connectivity of Large-Scale Brain Networks in Psychogenic Erectile Dysfunction Associated with Cognitive Impairments.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2023Article
- Sexual Pleasure Matters - and How to Define and Assess It Too. A Conceptual Framework of Sexual Pleasure and the Sexual Response.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2023Article
- Primate Sex and Its Role in Pleasure, Dominance and Communication.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Sex is a fundamental pleasure, and crucial to the survival of our species. Though not many people would disagree with the proposition that sexual behaviour depends on the brain, the neuroscientific study of human sex is still relatively taboo and much remains to be discovered. On the contrary, excellent experimental animal models (mostly rat) are available that have uncovered major behavioural, neurochemical, and neuroanatomical characteristics of sexual behaviour. Restructuring sexual behaviour into broader terms reflecting behavioural states (wanting, liking, and inhibition) facilitates species comparison, revealing many similarities between animal and human sexual pleasure cycles, some of which can serve as potential avenues of new human sex research. In particular, behavioural and brain evidence clearly shows that motivational and consummatory phases are fundamentally distinct, and that genitally-induced sexual reward is a major factor in sexual learning mechanisms.
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