[HTML][HTML] Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story?

A Ågmo, E Laan - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Sexual incentive stimuli activate sexual motivation and heighten the level of general arousal.
The sexual motive may induce the individual to approach the incentive, and eventually to …

Sex-specific and social experience-dependent oxytocin–endocannabinoid interactions in the nucleus accumbens: implications for social behaviour

AM Borie, LJ Young, RC Liu - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Oxytocin modulates social behaviour across diverse vertebrate taxa, but the precise nature
of its effects varies across species, individuals and lifetimes. Contributing to this variation is …

Exercise-induced euphoria and anxiolysis do not depend on endogenous opioids in humans

M Siebers, SV Biedermann, L Bindila, B Lutz… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
A runner's high describes a sense of well-being during endurance exercise characterized by
euphoria and anxiolysis. It has been a widespread belief that the release of endogenous …

An analysis of endocannabinoid concentrations and mood following singing and exercise in healthy volunteers

NL Stone, SA Millar, PJJ Herrod, DA Barrett… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The euphoric feeling described after running is, at least in part, due to increased circulating
endocannabinoids (eCBs). eCBs are lipid signaling molecules involved in reward, appetite …

[HTML][HTML] The endocannabinoid system, cannabis, and cannabidiol: implications in urology and men's health

JL Capodice, SA Kaplan - Current Urology, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background: The endocannabinoid system is a neuromodulatory system responsible for
partial regulation of cognitive and emotional processes in the human central nervous system …

Inner Engineering Practices and Advanced 4‐day Isha Yoga Retreat Are Associated with Cannabimimetic Effects with Increased Endocannabinoids and Short‐Term …

S Sadhasivam, S Alankar, R Maturi… - Evidence‐Based …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Anxiety and depression are common in the modern world, and there is growing
demand for alternative therapies such as meditation. Meditation can decrease perceived …

The anxiety of the pandemic: Binge-watching, splurging, sexting, hooking up, and masturbating among college students

TJ Mowen, A Heitkamp - Deviant Behavior, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly altered the lives
of college students across the United States. Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the …

The influence of opioid blockage on the sexual response cycle: A randomized placebo-controlled experiment with relevance for the treatment of Compulsive Sexual …

N Incoronato, SV Biedermann, L Roth, JC Müller… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of opioid antagonists is discussed as a feasible and tolerable treatment of
Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD). However, little is known about the influence …

Between pleasure and pain: A pilot study on the biological mechanisms associated with BDSM interactions in dominants and submissives

E Wuyts, N De Neef, V Coppens… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background BDSM is an abbreviation used to reference the concepts of bondage and
discipline, dominance and submission, sadism, and masochism, enacted by power …

Masturbation in the animal kingdom

L Roth, P Briken, J Fuss - The Journal of Sex Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Masturbation is one of the most common sexual behaviors in humans. It is also a
phylogenetically widespread trait of various other mammalian and some non-mammalian …