ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2015
Sexual motivation is reflected by stimulus-dependent motor cortex excitability.
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- The neural basis of sex differences in sexual behavior: A quantitative meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2016Pooled it
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- Expectation of sexual images of adults and children elicits differential dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activation in pedophilic sexual offenders and healthy controls.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- The Impact of Oxytocin Gene Knockout on Sexual Behavior and Gene Expression Related to Neuroendocrine Systems in the Brain of Female Mice.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2017Article
- Freezing behavior as a response to sexual visual stimuli as demonstrated by posturography.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
Sexual behavior involves motivational processes. Findings from both animal models and neuroimaging in humans suggest that the recruitment of neural motor networks is an integral part of the sexual response. However, no study so far has directly linked sexual motivation to physiologically measurable changes in cerebral motor systems in humans. Using transcranial magnetic stimulation in hetero- and homosexual men, we here show that sexual motivation modulates cortical excitability. More specifically, our results demonstrate that visual sexual stimuli corresponding with one's sexual orientation, compared with non-corresponding visual sexual stimuli, increase the excitability of the motor cortex. The reflection of sexual motivation in motor cortex excitability provides evidence for motor preparation processes in sexual behavior in humans. Moreover, such interrelationship links theoretical models and previous neuroimaging findings of sexual behavior.
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