INTRODUCTION Difficulties in sexual desire and function often occur in persons with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but many questions remain regarding the mechanisms underlying the occurrence of sexual problems in PTSD. AIM The aim of this review was to present a model of sexual dysfunction in PTSD underpinned by an inability to regulate and redirect the physiological arousal needed fo...

background: female sexual dysfunction (fsd) defines as any disorder in the process of sexual contact including 6 main domains, desire, arousal, lubrication,  orgasm,  orgasm  satisfaction  and  pain. this study was conducted to evaluate prevalence of sexual dysfunction disorder in women with migraine headache and also find the associated factors related to migraine characteristics. methods: a t...

Background: Sexuality is a complex phenomenon that is being influenced by psychological as well as physiological factors. Its dysfunction includes desire, arousal, orgasmic and sex pain disorders. The present study aimed to assess the incidence of sexual dysfunction (SD) and related risk factors in a cohort of Ghanaian women. Materials and Methods: The Golombok Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfac...

background and objective: inability to achieve orgasm, or delay in achieving orgasm that causes personal distress or inter personal difficulty, examined in this research. materials and methods: this clinical trial was with pre-test and post-test, also with control group and to assess it’s, was used sexual satisfaction questionnaire of glombok rust. the samples studied were 20 women who were ref...

background: migraine is a chronic disorder affecting women more than men. sexual dysfunction is one the complaints of women with migraine, which is not regarded as it should be. the goal of this study was to determine sexual dysfunction in women with migraine, and possible effects of depression and sleep quality on their sexual function. methods: one hundred married migraineurs women were enrol...

The effects of false positive and false negative physiological feedback (vaginal photoplethymograph response print-out) on women's sexual arousal were examined. Participants included women without sexual dysfunction (n=16) and women with Sexual Arousal Disorder (SAD; n=15). Measures of subjective sexual arousal, physiological sexual arousal (vaginal pulse amplitude), expectancies, affect, and a...

Interest in human sexual function has increased in the past decade, in large part as a result of increased recognition of the sexual side effects of various medications, the high incidence of sexual dysfunction among men and women, and the highly publicized success of some treatments for sexual dysfunction (e.g., Viagra for erectile dysfunction). This paper will describe the present knowledge o...

Recently, heart rate variability (HRV) level has been found to be a risk factor for female sexual dysfunction. Low HRV was a significant predictor of female sexual arousal dysfunction and overall sexual dysfunction. Building upon this finding, the present study examined whether differences in vagal activity between sexually functional and sexually dysfunctional women may be driving the associat...

Sexual dysfunction (SD) can be caused by a wide variety of physiological and environmental factors. Antipsychotics induced SD is more prevalent in the modern world. Even though the incidence of antipsychotic induced SD is higher, it is considered as an underreported side effect. Proper management should be done to reduce the impact of antipsychotic induced SD.

Sexual difficulties are common in people attending genitourinary (GU) medicine/HIV services and many would like professional help. Here, we report the results of the BASHH Special Interest Group in Sexual Dysfunction (SD) survey on the level and type of SD service provision within UK GU medicine services in 2007. Many clinicians expressed an interest in SD, however, only 25% of GU medicine clin...