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Sexual Course of Rapidity and Premature Ejaculation and Genetics
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Sexual Course of Rapidity
It is generally believed that aging delays ejaculation. This assumption, might be true for men with a normal or average ejaculation time but has never been investigated in men with premature ...
Male Ejaculation and Orgasmic Disorders - Psychotherapy
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
The psychoanalytic idea of unconscious conflicts being the cause of premature ejaculation has never been investigated in a manner that allowed generalization, as only case reports on psychoanalytic therapy have been published.
But this is ...
Positron Emission Tomography-Scan Studies in Humans - History
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Waldinger distinguishes four periods in the approach to and treatment of premature ejaculation.
The First Period (1887–1917): Early Ejaculation
In 1887, Gross described the first case of early ejaculation in medical literature. A second report ...
Positron Emission Tomography-Scan Studies in Humans
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Although male rat studies are of utmost importance for a better understanding of the neurobiology of ejaculation, brain imaging studies in humans are the tools which provide a better understanding of how the human brain ...
Neurobiology Of Ejaculation
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Serotonin, 5-Hydroxytryptamine Neurotransmission and 5-HT Receptors
For a better understanding of the neurobiology of premature and delayed ejaculation and its treatments, it is a prerequisite to have some basic knowledge of what is happening in ...
Male Ejaculation and Orgasmic Disorders
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Ejaculation and orgasm usually occur simultaneously in men even though ejaculation and orgasm are two separate phenomenona. Ejaculation occurs in the genital organs, whereas orgasmic sensations, being related to the genitals, are mainly a cerebral ...
Treatment Of Female Orgasmic Disorder Part 3
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Pharmacological Approaches
Of the few placebo-controlled studies examining the effectiveness of pharmacological agents for treating female orgasmic disorder, most examine the efficacy of agents for treating antidepressant-induced anorgasmia. Whether pharmacological agents would have the same ...
Treatment Of Female Orgasmic Disorder Part 2
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Anxiety could feasibly impair orgasmic function in women via several cognitive processes. Anxiety can serve as a distraction that disrupts the processing of erotic cues by causing the woman to focus instead on performance related ...
Treatment Of Female Orgasmic Disorder Part 1
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Female orgasmic disorder has been treated from psychoanalytic, cognitivebehavioral, pharmacological, and systems theory perspectives. Because substantial empirical outcome research is available only for cognitive-behavioral and, to a lesser degree, pharmacological approaches, only these two methods ...
Definition Of Female Orgasmic Disorder
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
On the basis of findings from the National Social and Health Life Survey conducted in the early 1990s, orgasmic problems are the second most frequently reported sexual problems in US women. Results from this random ...
Psychosocial Factors Related To Women’s Orgasm
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Age, education, social class, religion, personality, and relationship issues are the psychosocial factors most commonly discussed in relation to female orgasmic ability. Laumann found only the youngest group of women (18–24 years) showed rates of ...
Female Orgasm - What Is Orgasm?
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Orgasm is a transient peak sensation of intense pleasure that is accompanied by a number of physiological body changes. In men, orgasm is normally accompanied by ejaculation, which makes the event easily identifiable. In women, ...
Psychosexual and Relationship Therapies for Men with Erectile Dysfunction
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
The clinician should try to encourage the man to be open and honest with his partner. This will allow the couple to identify together any anxieties or other issues that might be causing the problem. ...
Psychological Therapies For Men With Erectile Dysfunction
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
In the majority of cases of erectile dysfunction, psychological factors are involved in either the development of the disorder or the maintenance of the problem. While recognising that many men would not seek a psychological ...
Treatment Options For Erectile Dysfunction In Men
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Guidelines for treatment have changed considerably over the past decade, and will continue to do so as new drugs and treatment options become available and are evaluated. Treatment can be subdivided into first, second and ...
The History Of Erectile Dysfunction
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
A complete and accurate history of erectile dysfunction is essential for a reliable diagnosis. Communication about this issue can be loaded with cultural, religious, secular, and personal connotations and therefore the problem of erectile dysfunction ...
Does He Have A Psychogenic Basis To His Erectile Dysfunction?
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
In the anxious individual, there can be overactivity of the sympathetic system leading to increased smooth muscle tone. Alternatively, signals from the brain of an individual with a psychogenic issue can override the erectogenic parasympathetic ...
Anatomy And Physiology Of Erection
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
In its flaccid state, the penis acts as a tube through which urine is passed directly from the bladder via the urethra. The urethra is also a conduit for the ejaculate, which can be expelled ...
Female Sexual Arousal Disorder - Pharmacotherapy Part 2
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
Phentolamine
Two controlled studies have investigated the effect of the alpha-1 and alpha-2 adrenergic receptor antagonist phentolamine on the basis of the hypothesis that, as in men, the smooth muscle surrounding the vaginal arterial vascular ...
Female Sexual Arousal Disorder - Pharmacotherapy Part 1
By David Crawford · 13 years ago
In the relatively short time span, compared to psychologic treatments, that pharmacological treatments have become available for men, since 1998, the effect of pharmacological treatments in women with sexual arousal problems has been investigated in ...