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In 1954, Olds and Milner discovered that there appeared to be pleasure spots in the brain. Implanting electrodes in certain areas of the brain, through which a rat can give itself an electric current by pressing on a lever, produced in most brain areas nothing of note. In some areas, however, the rats seemed keen on the effects of self-stimulation and, in some cases, if left to their own devices would self-stimulate to the exclusion of all else – even food and drink.

As mentioned, noradrenaline was discovered in the brain in 1954. In 1959, a second catecolamine, dopamine, was identified, which was shown to be deficient in Parkinson’s disease.

The later mapping of dopamine-containing neurones has shown that they too, like noradrenergic neurones, tend to originate in a discrete area, the ventral tegmentum. Some of these neurones run to strictly motor areas of the brain and constitute the nigrostriatal system, and it is loss of nerve calls in this pathway that leads to Parkinson’s disease. Read more…

Effects of Drugs on Sex

Table of Contents

• Potency
• Orgasm
• Libido
• Aphrodisiacs
• Yohimbine
• Trazodone
• Nefazodone and Cyproheptadine
• Glyceril Trinitrate
• Transcutaneous Absorption
• Intracaversonal Injections
• Bethanecol
• Dyspareunia and Orgasm
• Libido
• Anaphrodisiacs
• Sex Addiction Treatment Clinic
• Do You Need Help?

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The range of sexual difficulties can be devastating.

Table of Contents

• Potency
• Ejaculation and Orgasm
• Libido
  • Sexual Orientation, Objects and Practices
  • The Female Sexual Response
• Sex Addiction Treatment Available
• Do you need help?

Potency

The sexual problem in men that is most likely to lead a request for medical assistance is a disorder of erectile function, leading to impotence. This refers to an inability to achieve or to sustain an erection, and may derive from either an organic or psychogenic source.

The organic causes of impotence stem from either problems with the nervous supply to blood vessels of the penis (neurogenic causes), or problems with the blood vessels themselves (vasculogenic causes). There are a number of other illnesses or disorders which may play a part, from local diseases of the penis, Peyronie’s disease, which involves excessive curvature of the penis (few penises are entirely straight when erect) to diseases which affect the whole body, such as liver or kidney disease. Read more…

Disinhibition is literally the opposite of inhibition. and a state where normal social restraints of behaviour are lost. People grow merry with alcohol as the alcohol first anaesthetizes their inhibitions, then their ability to hold a conversation, before finally it removes their ability to stand upright or make their way unassisted.

One of the early signs of hypomania and mania is loss of inhibition. The personality of the person with manic depressive disorder changes, as they at first become the life and soul of the party. As hypomania progresses there is further disinhibition; the individual may engage in extremely frank conversations with colleagues and complete strangers and become over-familiar with people he or she would normally be highly respectful of. The individual will then most likely spend extravagantly, run around starting numerous tasks, act on every impulse, become sexually promiscuous, irritable, and unable to concentrate for more than a couple of minutes as thought process become increasingly disorganized. Read more…