The elusive concept of sexual motivation: can it be anchored in the nervous system? [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 Sexual motivation is an abstract concept referring to the mechanisms determining the responsivity to sexually relevant stimuli. This responsivity determines the likelihood of producing a sexual response and the intensity of that response.
Elisa Ventura-Aquino, Anders Ågmo
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Identification of neural circuits controlling male sexual behavior and sexual motivation by manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionDifferent techniques have been used to identify the brain regions that control sexual motivation and sexual behavior. However, the influence of sexual experience on the activation of these brain regions in the same subject is unknown.
Lorena Gaytán-Tocavén +6 more
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“What a Girl Wants”: What Can We Learn From Animal Models of Female Sexual Motivation? [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019 Sexual motivation is notably different than other motivations such as hunger and thirst, because it lacks homeostatic drive. Sexual motivation poses no threat to physical well-being; individual survival is not at stake. Nevertheless, sexual motivation is
Fay A. Guarraci, Russell J. Frohardt
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The Sexual Motivation of Male Rats as a Tool in Animal Models of Human Health Disorders [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019 Normal or dysfunctional sexual behavior seems to be an important indicator of health or disease. Many health disorders in male patients affect sexual activity by directly causing erectile dysfunction, affecting sexual motivation, or both.
Michal Bialy +3 more
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Anticipatory 50-kHz Precontact Ultrasonic Vocalizations and Sexual Motivation: Characteristic Pattern of Ultrasound Subtypes in an Individual Analyzed Profile [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 We verified the hypothesis of the existence of forms of individual-specific differences in the emission of anticipatory precontact vocalization (PVs) indicating individualization related to sexual experience and motivation in male rats.
Wiktor Bogacki-Rychlik +2 more
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Modeling Human Sexual Motivation in Rodents: Some Caveats [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019 Sexual behavior is activated by motivation. An overwhelming majority of experimental studies of the intricacies of sexual motivation has been performed in rodents, most of them in rats.
Olivia Le Moëne, Anders Ågmo
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Sexual Motivation (Desire): Problems with Current Preclinical and Clinical Evaluations of Treatment Effects and a Solution [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThere has been an extensive search for efficient pharmacological treatment of female sexual interest/arousal disorder and other sexual dysfunctions. However, available treatments have met limited success, except for the drugs used for treating erectile ...
Anders Ågmo
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Chronic Psychological Stress, but Not Chronic Pain Stress, Influences Sexual Motivation and Induces Testicular Autophagy in Male Rats [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Spermiogenesis is an important physiological process of mammalian fertilization. The germ cells are susceptible to the harmful effects of either psychological or physiological stress, which could induce male infertility.
Yunyun Shen +6 more
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Sex Differences in Sexual Motivation in Humans and Other Mammals: The Role of Conscious and Unconscious Processes [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesIn self-report questionnaires, men report higher scores than women on variables such as desire for sex, frequency of sexual thoughts, number of sex partners, etc.
Priscille Touraille, Anders Ågmo
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Longitudinal associations between women’s cycle characteristics and sexual motivation using Flo cycle tracking data [PDF]
Scientific ReportsIn the current research, we used data from a sample of 16,327 menstrual cycle tracking app users to examine the association between menstrual cycle characteristics and sexual motivation tracked over 10 months of app use.
Summer Mengelkoch +6 more
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