Brain Morphological Changes With Functional Deficit Associated With Sexual Arousal in Postmenopausal Women.

Introduction: We have not known how menopause synchronously influences brain morphology and function associated with visually stimulated sexual arousal in postmenopausal women.

Aim: This study used a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging and voxel-based morphometry to evaluate menopause-related brain morphological and functional changes in postmenopausal women.

Methods: Nineteen premenopausal women and 19 postmenopausal women underwent functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging.

Functional neuroanatomy associated with natural and urban scenic views in the human brain: 3.0T functional MR imaging.

Objective: By using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique we assessed brain activation patterns while subjects were viewing the living environments representing natural and urban scenery.

Materials And Methods: A total of 28 healthy right-handed subjects underwent an fMRI on a 3.0 Tesla MRI scanner.

Time-course analysis of the neuroanatomical correlates of sexual arousal evoked by erotic video stimuli in healthy males.

Objective: To assess the dynamic activations of the key brain areas associated with the time-course of the sexual arousal evoked by visual sexual stimuli in healthy male subjects.

Materials And Methods: Fourteen right-handed heterosexual male volunteers participated in this study. Alternatively combined rest period and erotic video visual stimulation were used according to the standard block design.

Human brain activation in response to visual stimulation with rural and urban scenery pictures: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

Human brain activation was assessed in terms of eco-friendliness while viewing still photographs depicting rural and urban surrounding environments with the use of a functional magnetic resonance imaging technique. A total of 30 subjects who had both rural and urban life experiences participated in this study. In order to explore the common and differential activation maps yielded by viewing two extreme types of scenery, random effect group analysis was performed with the use of one-sample and two-sample t-tests.