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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Sex Med. 2017 Oct 3;14(11):1380–1391. doi: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.08.014

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Composite view of the activity of selected brain regions in the 10 seconds immediately before and the 10 seconds immediately after the onset of orgasm. Note the gradual increase in overall activity leading up to orgasm, with variable patterns of increase after the onset of orgasm and some regions showing abrupt increases at orgasm onset (eg, accumbens; hypothalamus, paracentral lobule; N = 10). hypo = hypothalamus; paracentral = paracentral lobule; l_acc = left accumbens; l_amy = left amygdala; l_hip = left hippocampus; oplr = operculum (SII); r_acc = right accumbens; r_amy = right amygdala; r_hip = right hippocampus.