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"Coria-Avila GA" Authored Publications:

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1 Appetitive olfactory conditioning in the neonatal male rat facilitates subsequent sexual partner preference. Ménard S, Gelez H, Jacubovitch M, Coria-Avila GA, Pfaus JG 32919208
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2 Conditioning of Sexual Interests and Paraphilias in Humans Is Difficult to See, Virtually Impossible to Test, and Probably Exactly How It Happens: A Comment on Hsu and Bailey (2020). Pfaus JG, Quintana GR, Mac Cionnaith CE, Gerson CA, Dubé S, Coria-Avila GA 32462414
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3 Neurobiology of social attachments. Coria-Avila GA, Manzo J, Garcia LI, Carrillo P, Miquel M, Pfaus JG 24769402
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4 The role of orgasm in the development and shaping of partner preferences. Coria-Avila GA, Herrera-Covarrubias D, Ismail N, Pfaus JG 27799080
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5 Do rats have orgasms? Pfaus JG, Scardochio T, Parada M, Gerson C, Quintana GR, Coria-Avila GA 27799081
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Title:Do rats have orgasms?
Authors:Pfaus JG,  Scardochio T,  Parada M,  Gerson C,  Quintana GR,  Coria-Avila GA
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27799081?dopt=Abstract
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PMID:27799081 Category:Socioaffect Neurosci Psychol Date Added:2019-05-31
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1 Department of Psychology, Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada; jim.pfaus@concordia.ca.
2 Department of Psychology, Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
3 Laboratory for the Biopsychosocial Study of Sexuality, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
4 Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
5 Centro de Investigaciones Cerebrales, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, VER, México.

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Do rats have orgasms?

Socioaffect Neurosci Psychol. 2016;6:31883

Authors: Pfaus JG, Scardochio T, Parada M, Gerson C, Quintana GR, Coria-Avila GA

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Although humans experience orgasms with a degree of statistical regularity, they remain among the most enigmatic of sexual responses; difficult to define and even more difficult to study empirically. The question of whether animals experience orgasms is hampered by similar lack of definition and the additional necessity of making inferences from behavioral responses.

METHOD: Here we define three behavioral criteria, based on dimensions of the subjective experience of human orgasms described by Mah and Binik, to infer orgasm-like responses (OLRs) in other species: 1) physiological criteria that include pelvic floor and anal muscle contractions that stimulate seminal emission and/or ejaculation in the male, or that stimulate uterine and cervical contractions in the female; 2) short-term behavioral changes that reflect immediate awareness of a pleasurable hedonic reward state during copulation; and 3) long-term behavioral changes that depend on the reward state induced by the OLR, including sexual satiety, the strengthening of patterns of sexual arousal and desire in subsequent copulations, and the generation of conditioned place and partner preferences for contextual and partner-related cues associated with the reward state. We then examine whether physiological and behavioral data from observations of male and female rats during copulation, and in sexually-conditioned place- and partner-preference paradigms, are consistent with these criteria.

RESULTS: Both male and female rats display behavioral patterns consistent with OLRs.

CONCLUSIONS: The ability to infer OLRs in rats offers new possibilities to study the phenomenon in neurobiological and molecular detail, and to provide both comparative and translational perspectives that would be useful for both basic and clinical research.

PMID: 27799081 [PubMed]




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