Meta-analytic Evidence for Neural Dysactivity Underlying Sexual Dysfunction.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

About 30-40% of the population report sexual dysfunction. Although it is well known that the brain controls sexual behavior, little is known about the neural basis of sexual dysfunction.

Aim

To assess convergence of altered brain activity associated with sexual dysfunction across available functional imaging studies.

Methods

We used activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis to quantify interstudy concordance across 14 functional imaging studies reporting 179 foci from 40 individual analyses involving 191 subjects with sexual dysfunction and 123 controls.

Main outcome measure

Activation likelihood estimation scores were used to assess convergence of findings.

Results

Consistently decreased brain activity associated with sexual dysfunctio

SUBMITTER: Poeppl TB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7211028 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature