Room 517-D | English Speaking Podium Session Friday, July 15, 2005 Time: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM |
The Basis of Neuroscience for Sexual Medicine.
Arnaud-Beauchamps, Nicole*,1, 1 SFSC, Paris, france, France
ABSTRACT- How are neurosciences base for sexual medicine? Neurosciences, recently, has overlooked the important relations between the brain and the body or soma, including emotionnal process. The emotions are defined as patterns of chemical and neural responses, the function of which is to assist the organism in maintaining life by prompting adaptive behaviors.The emotions are biologically determined, automatic,although it is acknowledged that culture and development may influence the set of inducers and can inhibit or modify overt expressions. Some well -defined brain regions are responsible for emotions. The effect of the emotion is both some bodily behavior and the creation of neuronal lap. That neuronal lap leads to the feeling, and the relationship between map and feelings is that feelings reflect how well body is according to the map. Emotions and feelings are playing a central role in the experience of consciousness Damasio showed that emotionnal feelings do involve body maps in the brain, and that brains components show alterated functional states during experimental changes of consciousness, for example during pharmacological manipulations. The relations between brain systems and complex cognition and behavior can only be explained by a comprehensive blend theories and facts related to all levels of organization of the nervous system, from molecules , cells and circuits to a large scale-systems and physical and social environments. Studies about the role of emotions on sexual functionning, although reclining some recent attention are still lacking. Research on depressed affect has shown some consistent results suggesting a negative impact on sexual arousal. Projection of how does it works for psychosomatic sexology will be discussed
Key words: neurosciences, sexual medicine, emotions