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What goes on in a woman’s mind when she has an orgasm? © Piotr Marcinski, Shutterstock
by Jean-Luc Goudet
reviewed by Xavier Demeersman
Published on July 29, 2020 at 5:52 PM
What happens in the brain during orgasm? An American psychologist, a specialist in the subject, conducted MRI experiments on female volunteers who were self-stimulating. The result: a video of the successive activation of different areas, showing how the emotion spreads throughout almost the entire brain.
At the last Neuroscience 2011 meeting , Professor Barry Komisaruk of Rutgers University (in New Jersey) presented an original study on brain activity during female orgasm. The team uses the technique offunctional MRIwhich visualizes small variations in blood flow, highlighting increased oxygen consumption by neurons. The subject is original but not unprecedented, since in 2000, Pek Van Andel’s Dutch team visualized the brain activity of a couple in action and received the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for this work.
Barry Komisaruk and his team have been studying sexual desire for several years, and science journalist Kayt Sukel has already participated in the experiment, as she recounts in The Guardian . The technique is not simple, as the head must remain absolutely still during the exercise, fixed in a kind of mask. This time, the star is apsychotherapist54-year-old Nan Wyse, who worked alone in the machine.
” An activity that lights up like a Christmas tree ,” reads the caption of the video produced by the Rutgers University team. (The full sequence can be seen in the video above.) © Barry R. Komisaruk et al. /YouTube
General conflagration
The video shows, in fakecolorsThe successive activations of different brain areas , with red indicating minimum activity and yellow then white indicating increasing activity. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly where orgasm occurs because most of the brain ends up being involved in the phenomenon.
Specialists note that the activation logically begins in the parts of the brain connected to the genitals and then spreads to the limbic system, the system of emotions . Areas usually activated by rewards then become active before the…hypothalamusdoes not participate in turn. Only two frontal regions extending over the top of the brain remain insensitive to the situation.
This type of research remains rare and could provide medicine with avenues for better treating problems related to a lack of pleasure. That is what the team hopes.
Original:https://www.futura-sciences.com/sante/actualites/medecine-video-orgasme-femme-filme-irm-34910/
