INTRODUCTION Past findings on the diagnostic sensitivity of vaginal photoplethysmography are limited by testing among women with heterogeneous sexual dysfunctions and by the use of statistical techniques that are unable to assess how changes in subjective arousal are associated with changes in physiological arousal. AIMS The aims of this study were to: (i) test the sensitivity of vaginal phot...

INTRODUCTION Persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD) is described as the spontaneous, intrusive, and unwanted genital arousal in the absence of sexual interest and desire. Whether the etiology of this disorder is essentially central or peripheral is unclear; however, a presenting symptom may be persistent engorgement of genital erectile and vascular tissue. AIM To describe a case of a dist...

The question of how autonomous robots could be part of our everyday life is of a growing interest. We present here an experiment in which an autonomous robot explores its environment and tries to familiarize itself with the features available using a neural-network-based architecture. The lack of stability of its learning structures increases the arousal level of the robot, pushing the robot to...

The interest in emotion recognition from speech has increased in the last decade. Emotion recognition can improve the quality of services and the quality of life of people. One of the main problems in emotion recognition from speech is to find suitable features to represent the phenomenon. This paper proposes new features based on the energy content of wavelet based time-frequency (TF) represen...

Data from a non-clinical sample of 540 heterosexual women were used to examine the relationships between scores on the Sexual Excitation/Sexual Inhibition Inventory for Women (SESII-W) and ratings of current sexual problems, lifetime arousal difficulty, lifetime orgasm difficulty, and lifetime problems with low sexual interest. Multiple regression analyses also included several demographic/back...

BACKGROUND Emotional states linked to arousal and mood are known to affect the efficiency of cognitive performance. However, the extent to which memory processes may be affected by arousal, mood or their interaction is poorly understood. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Following a study phase of abstract shapes, we altered the emotional state of participants by means of exposure to music that ...

BACKGROUND In the professional literature and among our professional societies, female sexual dysfunction nomenclature and diagnostic criterion sets have been the source of considerable controversy. Recently, a consensus group, supported by the International Society for Women's Sexual Health, published its recommendations for nosology and nomenclature, which included only one type of arousal dy...

Unipolar depression is associated with insomnia and autonomic arousal. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect a single bout aerobic exercise on nocturnal heart rate variability pre-sleep arousal in patients depression. This designed as two-arm, parallel-group, randomized, outcome assessor-blinded, controlled, superiority trial. Patients primary diagnosis unipolar aged 18–65 years were...