[Psychophysiologic and psychopathologic aspects associated with sexual dysfunction].

Abstract

The authors review the relations between anxiety and sexual dysfunctions in base of studies that, in general, suggest the anxiety is common among subjects with sexual dysfunctions, but the level and the nature of the anxiety could vary much in the interindividual pattern. It revises experimental and clinical works that describe the anxiety provides the sexual arousal, studying the neurophysiological and neurochemical substratum which compares anxiety and sexual responses. It discusses the presence of psychopathology associated with sexual dysfunction.