Sex in the Brain: How Seizures, Strokes, Dementia, Tumors, and Trauma Can Change Your Sex Life

Amee Baird

224 pages, parution le 25/11/2019

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Amee Baird explores memorable cases of brain injuries and disease that have effected significant changes in sexual behavior and reveals what these exceptional stories have to say about human sexuality. Each chapter includes striking personal accounts, many from individuals Baird has met in her clinical practice, of unexpected changes in sexuality.What controls our sex lives? Our brains. Yet there is surprisingly little research into how our brains influence one of the most fundamental of all human behaviors. And there is even less understanding of what can happen to the sexuality of a person who suffers a brain injury or illness such as a stroke, Parkinson's disease, or dementia.

In Sex in the Brain , clinical neuropsychologist Amee Baird explores fascinating case studies of dramatic changes in sexual behavior and explains what these exceptional stories have to say about human sexuality. She illuminates the extraordinary insights into how the brain works that injury or disease can divulge. Each chapter includes striking personal accounts, many from individuals Baird has met in her clinical practice, of unexpected shifts in sexuality. Until now these fascinating, frightening, and funny stories have been hidden in medical journals or untold outside of the clinical setting. This revealing and sometimes heartbreaking book unfolds a better understanding of the links between brain function and our sexual selves.Introduction
1. Your Sexiest Brain Bits
2. 'Give It to Me Baby' or 'Not Tonight, Darling'
3. Sexual Side Effects of Seizure Surgery
4. Stimulation, Shunts and Psychosurgery
5. Can Sex Change Your Brain?
6. What's Love Got to Do with It?
7. From Safety Pins to Sleeping Beauties
8. Sex on the Spectrum
9. Porn on the Train (and on the Brain)
10. Blame It on My Brain
Afterword
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
IndexAmee Baird is a clinical neuropsychologist with a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Involved in research and private practice, she has published widely in academic journals and in The Conversation and is a regular media commentator.

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Éditeur(s)	Columbia univ p
Auteur(s)	Amee Baird
Parution	25/11/2019
Nb. de pages	224
EAN13	9780231195904

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