Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Did you know your brain plays a huge role in erections? #youtubeshorts #dopamine #viral #trending

25 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Short educational YouTube video (Anne Truong MD) explaining that the brain plays a central role in erections: sensory input from the five senses is processed by the brain, signals reach the hypothalamus which releases dopamine, and both brain and penis must be relaxed for an erection to occur.

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What does dopamine have to do with your erection? Well, everything. Because if you recall, the brain is a larger sexual organ, all right? You cannot get an erection unless your brain and your penis are relaxed. And it starts in the brain. The brain gets sensory input from your eyes, your nose, your mouth, from your hearing and your touch. All those five senses feed into the brain, and it goes to a gland in the brain that is called the hypothalamus. The signal is received in the hypothalamus, and then the hypothalamus release dopamine.