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. 2020 May 26;117(21):11204-11205.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1915927117. Epub 2020 May 5.

Neural substrates of sexual arousal revisited: Dependent on sex

Timm B Poeppl  1 , Katrin Sakreida  2 , Simon B Eickhoff  3   4
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Neural substrates of sexual arousal revisited: Dependent on sex

Timm B Poeppl et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Functional neuroanatomy of sexual arousal. Significantly converging activity (P < 0.05, cluster-level family-wise error [cFWE] corrected) during visually induced sexual arousal across 32 experiments (559 foci) involving heterosexual men and women. Brain slices shown at Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) coordinates (x, y, z). Experiments involving one sex (e.g., men) only included if analogous within-group experiment also performed in the other (i.e., women); dACC, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; DLPFC, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; IPL, inferior parietal lobule; L, left; lOFC, lateral orbitofrontal cortex; MCC, middle cingulate cortex; NAcc, nucleus accumbens; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; pgACC, pregenual anterior cingulate cortex; R, right.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Sex differences in convergence of brain activity during visually induced sexual arousal. Comparison of brain activity between heterosexual men and women as revealed by subtraction analyses. Significance threshold set to P > 0.95 posterior probability. Brain slices shown at coordinates (x, y, z) in MNI space.
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  • Neural substrates of sexual arousal are not sex dependent.
    Mitricheva E, Kimura R, Logothetis NK, Noori HR. Mitricheva E, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jul 30;116(31):15671-15676. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1904975116. Epub 2019 Jul 15. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31308220 Free PMC article.

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