Neural correlates of intimate picture stimuli in females

Jacob et al. (2011) previously reported on intimate picture stimuli for emotion research in females in Psychiatry Research. Difficulties to engage in intimate relations constitute problems of many mental disorders, and intimacy must be differentiated from pure sex drive. Functional neuroimaging is an important tool to understand the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders. We now studied cerebral activation in response to intimate stimuli in 35 healthy women. Comparison stimuli were taken from the International Affective Picture System.

Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - February 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Simon Maier, Julia Spiegelberg, Gitta Jacob, Linda van Zutphen, Almut Zeeck, Armin Hartmann, Oliver T üscher, Lukas Holovics, Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Andreas Joos Source Type: research