Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Putting orgasm to the test
How do you study female orgasm? Well, you put the subject inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and track the brain changes that take place as she reaches climax. This is just what scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey are doing. In "Rutgers Lab Studies Female Orgasm Through Brain Imaging," a reporter who decided to "donate an orgasm to science" recounts her experience and relates her interview with Barry Komisaruk, the Rutgers neuroscientist who leads the study on "which areas of the brain — the body’s sexiest organ — are activated by arousal." Click on the title above to read the article. (Photo: Photobucket.com)
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