Functional and Dysfunctional Sexual Behavior : a Synthesis of Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology.

A picture of mammalian sexual behavior based on solid experimental data.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ågmo, Anders
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington : Elsevier, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Functional and Dysfunctional Sexual Behavior; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 On the purpose of sex and some notes on scientific explanations; Chapter 2 An incentive motivational framework and the description of sexual behaviors; Chapter 3 The stimulus control of sexual incentive motivation: non-human mammals; Chapter 4 The stimulus control of sexual incentive motivation: the human; Chapter 5 Endocrine control of sexual behavior; Chapter 6 Neural control of sexual behavior; Chapter 7 Learning and sex: Sexual activity as reinforcement and reward.
  • Chapter 8 Preference for same sex partners: Basic concepts and its occurrence in non-human mammalsChapter 9 Preference for same sex partners in the human; Chapter 10 Some comments on the concepts of 'normal' or 'functional' sexual behavior; Chapter 11 Hypoactive sexual desire disorder; Chapter 12 Hyperactive sexual desire and the paraphilias; Chapter 13 On the omissions; Index.