Psychiatry and Sexual Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practitioners

[Michael Scally MD]

Psychiatry and Sexual Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practitioners

Psychiatry meets sexual medicine!

This book explores the links between mental and sexual health and provides guidance for the treatment of the most common sexual problems. The book fills the need of many clinicians and trainees who work in the field of psychiatry and sexual medicine.

Offering comprehensive and clearly structured information, case presentations, and key messages this book focuses on sharing essential knowledge and skills of recognized experts in the field.

Get inspired by the vivid interactions of psychiatry and sexual medicine and help your patients on their way to improved sexual health!

Lew-Starowicz M, Giraldi A, Krüger THC, eds. Psychiatry and Sexual Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practitioners. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2021. Psychiatry and Sexual Medicine | SpringerLink

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Krüger THC, Giraldi A, Tenbergen G. The Neurobiology of Sexual Responses and Its Clinical Relevance. In: Lew-Starowicz M, Giraldi A, Krüger THC, eds. Psychiatry and Sexual Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practitioners. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2021:71-84. The Neurobiology of Sexual Responses and Its Clinical Relevance

Sexual responses are regulated by hormonal, neurochemical, and neuronal factors and networks. An understanding of these basic principles is necessary for diagnostics, counseling, and treatment of sexual problems.

This chapter includes a description of essential mechanisms of sexual function on a neurochemical, hormonal, and neuronal level. Analogous to the dual control model there are inhibitory (e.g., serotonin) and excitatory hormone and neurotransmitter systems (sex steroids, dopamine) that control and modulate sexual responses.

Neuronal structures have been identified that are responsible for processing sexual stimuli and eliciting sexual responses. These networks are altered in subjects with sexual disorders or by pharmacological treatments such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors, dopamine antagonists, or antiandrogens. The knowledge of the neurobiology of sexuality forms the basis for the treatment of sexual dysfunctions in psychiatry and other areas.