Sympathetic nervous system activity and female sexual arousal.

Re: Heart Rate Variability: A Risk Factor for Female Sexual Dysfunction.

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of autonomic nervous system activity, which reflects an individual's ability to adapt to physiological and environmental changes. Low resting HRV has been linked to several mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and alcohol dependence (Kemp et al. in Biological Psychiatry 67(11):1067-1074, 2010. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.12.012; Kemp...

Autonomic Nervous System Influences: The Role of the Sympathetic Nervous System in Female Sexual Arousal

Evidence for a curvilinear relationship between sympathetic nervous system activation and women's physiological sexual arousal.

There is increasing evidence that women's physiological sexual arousal is facilitated by moderate sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation. Literature also suggests that the level of SNS activation may play a role in the degree to which SNS activity affects sexual arousal. We provide the first empirical examination of a possible curvilinear relationship between SNS activity and women's genit...

Psychophysiological sexual arousal in women with a history of child sexual abuse.

On the basis of literature that suggests that child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have higher baseline sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity than healthy controls and research that suggests that the SNS plays a critical role in female physiological sexual arousal, we examined the impact of SNS activation through intense exercise on sexual arousal in...

The roles of testosterone and alpha-amylase in exercise-induced sexual arousal in women.

INTRODUCTION Several studies have demonstrated that moderate exercise increases genital response to erotic stimuli in women. The increase in genital arousal could be the result of various changes that can occur in response to exercise including changes in hormone levels, neurotransmitter levels, mood, and autonomic nervous system activity. AIM The present study was an attempt to shed light on...