See the papers below to learn more about the brain mechanisms behind sexual satiety. Overriding sexual satiation mechanisms may play a role in the accumulation of DeltaFosB and addiction-related brain changes. See Men: Does Frequent Ejaculation Cause A Hangover?
- c-Fos expression related to sexual satiety in the male rat forebrain (2007)
- Different amounts of ejaculatory activity, a natural rewarding behavior, induce differential mu and delta opioid receptor internalization in the rat’s ventral tegmental area (2013)
- Dopamine receptors play distinct roles in sexual behavior expression of rats with a different sexual motivational tone (2014)
- Electrical stimulation of dorsal and ventral striatum differentially alters the copulatory behavior of male rats (2010)
- Endogenous opioids mediate the sexual inhibition but not the drug hypersensitivity induced by sexual satiation in male rats (2013)
- IRS2-Akt pathway in midbrain dopamine neurons regulates behavioral and cellular responses to opiates (2007)
- Lateral Hypothalamic Serotonin Inhibits Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine: Implications for Sexual Satiety (1999)
- Opiate-Induced Molecular and Cellular Plasticity of Ventral Tegmental Area and Locus Coeruleus Catecholamine Neurons (2012)
- Pharmacological and physiological aspects of sexual exhaustion in male rats (2003)
- Recovery from sexual exhaustion-induced copulatory inhibition and drug hypersensitivity follow a same time course: two expressions of a same process? (2010)
- Relationship Between Sexual Satiety and Brain Androgen Receptors (2007)
- Relationship between sexual satiety and motivation, brain androgen receptors and testosterone in male mandarin voles (2013)
- Sexual Behavior and Sex-Associated Environmental Cues Activate the Mesolimbic System in Male Rats (2004)
- Sexual Behavior Reduces Hypothalamic Androgen Receptor Immunoreactivity (2003)
- The mesolimbic system participates in the naltrexone-induced reversal of sexual exhaustion: Opposite effects of intra-VTA naltrexone administration on copulation of sexually experienced and sexually exhausted male rats (2013)
- The post-orgasmic prolactin increase following intercourse is greater than following masturbation and suggests greater satiety (2006)