Medial Preoptic Lesions and Male Sexual Behavior: Age and Environmental Interactions
- 23 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 200 (4348) , 1414-1415
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.663624
Abstract
In all species studied, the medial preoptic area has been found to be necessary for male copulatory behavior. No recovery of sexual function from the medial preoptic area lesions appears to have been reported. This study demonstrates that rats with large lesions of the medial preoptic area exhibit adult male sexual behavior when the surgery is performed prepuberally and the rats have interacted socially with peers.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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