Table 1.
Subjective evaluation of the stimuli as a function of group.
Figure 1.
Central processing of penile-vaginal penetration images (PEN).
Central processing of penile-vaginal penetration images (PEN) in all subjects (left panel), and within the three groups (right). Brain maps are thresholded at p<0.05, FWE corrected for multiple comparisons.
Table 2.
Central processing of penile-vaginal penetration images (PEN).
Figure 2.
Overlap between PEN and disgust brain activation maps.
Overlap between PEN and disgust brain activation maps, resulting from an analysis on the conjugated activity (PEN>BOD ∧ PEN>BOD), [(PEN>BOD ∧A-R>BOD) and (PEN>BOD ∧ FEAR>BOD). The left panel of the figure depicts the consistency of the PEN ∧A-R(orange shading) and PEN ∧ CORE (purple shading) maps across all subjects. The right panel depicts the conjugated activity within each group individually (sexually asymptomatic, red; vaginismus, blue; dyspareunia, green). Note the more extensive overlap for PEN ∧A-R with respect to the other conjunctions, especially in posterior parts of the brain. A-R, animal-reminder disgust; CORE, core disgust; PEN, penile-vaginal penetration; DYS, dyspareunia; CON, sexually asymptomatic; VAG, primary vaginismus. Brain maps are thresholded at p<0.05, FWE corrected for multiple comparisons.
Table 3.
Shared brain responses between PEN-and aversive- brain activity maps.