Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Normal Sexual Function Starts in the Brain #Erection #ErectileDysfunction #BloodTests #ED #shorts

12 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Anne Truong MD explaining that normal sexual function and erections originate in the brain. Sensory inputs from the five senses and emotional state (e.g., depression, fatigue, anxiety, distraction) are integrated in the brain, which then signals neuroendocrine glands (pituitary/hypopituitary near the midbrain) to release hormones that contribute to sexual response. The speaker references a visual diagram but the transcript contains the core explanation.

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I know that the normal sexual function or how you get an erection is that it starts in the brain. The brain is a larger sexual organ. It starts in the brain. And then you get messages from your senses, your five senses. What you see, what you smell, what you taste, what you hear and what you touch that feed into your brain like the picture I show. And then it mixed with your emotions. How you feeling? You're feeling depressed, you're feeling fatigued, you're feeling anxious, or you're distracted. And then that messenger get filtered, then goes to the hormone, the gland in the pituitary and the hypopituitary. And that get the hormone get released from that gland that's like right in your midbrain, right here.