What drives male sexual desire? Mouse models may point to the brain center for the male libido.
"That recognition is then transformed into the desire to mate and the act of mating by this circuit," he further noted. "Also, the circuit enables the behavior to be pleasurable so animals will seek to do it again, which is very important, because for a species to survive, animals need to reproduce."
"In principle, those three aspects of sexual behavior—the act of mating, the physical act itself, the urge to mate and the pleasure that accompanies it—those could be embodied in different brain regions," he noted. "But what we found is that the POA has these attributes." Shah further said in the statement that his research can now lead to new drugs related to sexual function.
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