CONTEXT-DEPENDENT SEXUAL CHANGES DURING WOMEN’S MIDLIFE TRANSITIONS

Are changes in sexual functioning during midlife due to aging or menopause?

OBJECTIVE To determine whether changes in women's sexual functioning during midlife are due to aging or menopause. DESIGN Prospective, observational study. SETTING Population-based sample assessed in own homes. PATIENT(S) Four hundred thirty-eight Australian-born women aged 45-55 years and still menstruating at baseline. One hundred ninety-seven were studied for effects of the natural men...

Context-Dependent Transitions in Tutoring Discourse

Successful machine tutoring, like other forms of ~~mamnachine discourse, requires sophisticated communication skills and a deep understanding of the student’s knowledge. A system must have the ability to reason about a student’s knowledge and to assess the effect of the discourse on him. In this paper we describe Meno-tutor, a LISP program that deliberately Plans the rhetorical structure of its...

Context-dependent changes in tactile perception during movement execution

Tactile perception is inhibited during movement execution, a phenomenon known as tactile suppression. Here, we investigated whether the type of movement determines whether or not this form of sensory suppression occurs. Participants performed simple reaching or exploratory movements. Tactile discrimination thresholds were calculated for vibratory stimuli delivered to participants' wrists while ...

Men's sexual health after midlife.

Brain structural changes in women and men during midlife

Brain development during childhood and adolescence differs between boys and girls. Structural changes continue during adulthood and old age, particularly in terms of brain volume reductions that accelerate beyond age 35 years. We investigated whether brain structural change in mid-life differs between men and women. 43 men and 28 women from the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort underwent MRI b...