Behavioural changes after treatment with testosterone: case report

Beumont, P. J. V.; Bancroft, John; Beardwood, C. J.; Russell, G. F. M.

doi:10.1017/s0033291700045633

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“…This may account for the frequent occurrence of erections to non-specific stimuli in prepubertal boys when androgens are starting to rise (Ramsey, 1943). The effect of testosterone on psychic erections and sexual drive was clearly demonstrated in the case reported by Beumont et al (1971).…”

Section: Penile Erection and Erectile Impotencementioning

confidence: 84%

Sexual inadequacy in the male

Bancroft

1971

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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Summary The adequacy of sexual functioning in the male depends on a complex interaction between psychological, hormonal and neurophysiological factors. Disturbance of any one of these factors may lead to sexual inadequacy. In the majority of cases no gross abnormality is found but the absence of gross hormonal or neurophysiological abnormality does not necessarily imply a purely psychological cause. Individual variations in the pattern of response of the autonomic nervous system or in the ability to learn control of autonomic responses such as erection or ejaculation may be sufficient to account for some cases of inadequacy and in others may increase the susceptibility to psychological factors. Further research is required to clarify these undoubtedly important psychophysiological relationships. Treatment has been most successful when it has taken into account both psychological and physiological factors. The advances made by Masters & Johnson (1970) in this area have partly depended on their earlier physiological and anatomical studies of sexual response (Masters & Johnson, 1966). It may be that in some cases the use of anxiety-reducing drugs or androgens will be all that is required but further work is required to identify such cases. The placebo effects of such preparations should not be overlooked particularly as many cases of sexual inadequacy are based on lack of confidence or ignorance and require little more than good advice or reassurance. Considerable advances in our understanding of these problems have been made in the past 20 years and techniques of endocrine, physiological and behavioural assessment are now available which should enable further progress to be made in the near future.

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Section: Penile Erection and Erectile Impotencementioning

confidence: 84%

Sexual inadequacy in the male

Bancroft

1971

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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“…De nombreuses etudes se sont int~res-sees & I'incidence de cette pathologie sur le comportement sexuel des patients atteints, et plus particulierement sur la composante particuliere du desir sexuel. La grande majorit~ des hommes pr6sentant un hypogonadisme rapportent une diminution marquee de la libido, comme rindiquent la majorite des etudes sur le sujet [14,18,48,72].…”

Section: Androgenes Et Motivation Sexuelleunclassified

Role of androgens in male sexual motivation: approach with functional brain imaging techniques

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Stoléru

2004

Androl.

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I. I N T R O D U C T I O NLe syst~me nerveux central joue un r61e a toutes les etapes du comportement sexuel, notamment en ce qui concerne le traitement des stimuli externes [47]. Chez de nombreux mammif6res, comme par exempie chez le singe, certaines caracteristiques des femelies, determinees hormonalement, telles que des odeurs [11] ou des stimuli visuels [15], declanchent le comportement sexuel des m~les. Ceci n6cessite un traitement central de rensemble des informations sensorielles. Dans I'espece humaine, rattractivite sexuelle depend egalement d'un certains nombre de facteurs [20], et la pertinence des stimuli externes dolt en permanence ~tre analysee pour que la r6ponse sexuelle puisse se developper. En particulier, une etape cle consiste en I'attribution & ces signaux externes d'une valeur dite de << recompense )) qui conditionnera la raise en place des differentes etapes de rexcitation sexuelle [58]. Ces etapes font intervenir des processus cognitifs complexes [8], interagissant avec des composantes ~motionnelles et physiologiques.Nous verrons qu'au sein de cette composante physiologique, un interet particulier dolt etre porte au r61e joue par les androg~nes (et notamment la testosterone) dans la regulation et le maintien du comportement sexuel. Cette fonction regulatrice des androg~nes fait essentiellement intervenir leur action au sein du syst~me nerveux central. Ce r61e fondamental est en particulier mis en evidence dans le cadre de pathologies entraTnant un d6ficit andro-

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“…If it is true that sexual arousal is always accompanied by early changes in the genital tissues, these could depend on hormonal enhancement of the responsiveness of tactile receptors. Published comprehensive studies on the androgen dependency of erection using appropriate controls and objective measures (not verbal reports) do not seem to exist for the human male, though clear results were obtained in a study on one man by Beumont, Bancroft, Beardwood, and Russell (1972). Erection and other sexual reflexes have been shown to be androgen-dependent in studies on spinally sectioned .. 2.…”

Section: Sex Difference and The Role Of Androgenmentioning

confidence: 99%