What are the neural substrates of food reward? Are reward and pleasure identical? Can taste pleasure be assessed in animals? Is reward necessarily conscious? These questions have re-emerged in recent years, and there is now sufficient evidence to prompt re-examination of many preconceptions concerning reward and its relation to brain systems. This paper reviews evidence from many sources regard...

OBJECTIVES Use of withdrawal (coitus interruptus) has consequences for reproductive health, but few nationally representative studies exist. We (1) examined patterns of withdrawal among 15- to 24-year-old women and men, and (2) explored withdrawal's associations with sociodemographic, psychological, and sexual factors. STUDY DESIGN Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growt...

OBJECTIVES: The clinical approach of the Psychoncology is generally limited to the investigation of the only psychological status of cancer patients, without taking into consideration the well demonstrated cancer progression-related psychoneuroendocrine alterations, namely consisting of a progressive decline in the pineal endocrine function and an anomalous activity of brain opioid system. The ...

This study aims to investigate the relationships between spirituality, psychological well-being, compassion, and life satisfaction among adults, as well mediating role of compassion in relationship spirituality well-being adults. Using relational survey model, 418 adults were recruited participate study. The Spirituality Scale, Psychological Well-Being Compassion Life Satisfaction Scale used co...

background: hypoactive sexual desire disorder is the most common sexual disorder among women, which interferes with their various functions. activity of brain-behavioral and psychological distress systems are considered among factors affecting sexual function. objectives: the present study aimed to compare women with hypoactive sexual desire and normal women in terms of brain-behavioral and psy...

The concept of consumption, which has an important place in people's lives, is generally expressed as the use produced goods and services line with needs. Consumption now includes psychological needs people well their physical Consumers can buy things they do not need by acting pleasure-orientedly, exhibit consumption behaviors to provide satisfaction. One consumer-purchase patterns found demon...

ghazzali has viewed pleasure as perceiving what is desirable and has given it in different types of: sensible and hearty, sensible and non sensible, external and internal, sensible and intellectual, intellectual and bodily. he has viewed human pleasure growth to be in five steps and known five elements for distinguishing them including those of the faculty of perception, perceptions, the meanin...