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Physiology of female sexual function and dysfunction [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Impotence Research, 2005
Female sexual dysfunction is age-related, progressive, and highly prevalent, affecting 30-50% of American women. While there are emotional and relational elements to female sexual function and response, female sexual dysfunction can occur secondary to medical problems and have an organic basis.
openaire   +2 more sources

Development of the Occupational Performance Inventory of Sexuality and Intimacy (OPISI): Phase One [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: The occupational therapy profession needs a framework to guide understanding of the occupational nature of sexuality and intimacy, assessment, intervention design, and measurement of outcomes.
Christy, Davis   +6 more
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Impact of Overactive Bladder Syndrome on Female Sexual Function

open access: yesJournal of Urological Surgery, 2015
The etiology of female sexual dysfunction includes psychological, physiological and iatrogenic causes. Physiological and iatrogenic causes are abdominal surgery, menopause, smoking, spinal cord injuries and some antipsychotic, antihypertensive, and ...
Serdar Toksöz, Taha Numan Yıkılmaz
doaj   +1 more source

Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction: A Bioelectric Mechanism?

open access: yesBioelectricity, 2020
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drugs, targeting serotonin transport, are widely used. A puzzling and biomedically important phenomenon concerns the persistent sexual dysfunction following SSRI use seen in some patients.
D. Healy, Joshua LaPalme, M. Levin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sexual dysfunctions in young university women: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesRevista Pesquisa em Fisioterapia, 2021
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of sexual dysfunction in young college women. METHODS: This is a descriptive analytical cross-sectional study. A total of 111 heterosexual women, students of the physiotherapy course of the Federal University of ...
Emanuelle Rocha Purificação   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contested psychiatric ontology and feminist critique : 'female sexual dysfunction' and the diagnostic and statistical manual [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this article I discuss the emergence of Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) within American psychiatry and beyond in the postwar period, setting out what I believe to be important and suggestive questions neglected in existing scholarship.
Angel, Katherine
core   +1 more source

Sexual Dysfunction Among Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease Undergoing Hemodialysis: Prevalence and Associated Factors

open access: yesIranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2020
Background: Chronic renal disease is a worldwide concern. The number of patients on hemodialysis increases every year. These patients have several physiological and psychological problems like sexual dysfunction that can affect their mental health and ...
M. Shakiba   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nuclear medicine procedures and the evaluation of male sexual organs: a short review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Sexuality consists of three aspects that are interrelated and inseparable, biological, physiological and social. The biological aspect considers the individual's capability to give and to receive pleasure.
Adenilson de Souza da Fonseca   +39 more
core   +4 more sources

Developmental and functional effects of steroid hormones on the neuroendocrine axis and spinal cord [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This review highlights the principal effects of steroid hormones at central and peripheral levels in the neuroendocrine axis. The data discussed highlight the principal role of oestrogens and testosterone in hormonal programming in relation to sexual ...
Gonzalez Deniselle, Maria Claudia   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

The Physiology of Female Sexual Function and the Pathophysiology of Female Sexual Dysfunction (Committee 13A)

open access: yesThe Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2016
ABSTRACTIntroductionThe article consists of six sections written by separate authors that review female genital anatomy, the physiology of female sexual function, and the pathophysiology of female sexual dysfunction but excluding hormonal aspects.AimTo review the physiology of female sexual function and the pathophysiology of female sexual dysfunction ...
Levin, Roy J.   +5 more
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