隨着非侵入性腦功能成像技術的出現，現在已經能夠辨別性慾發生時所激發的大腦區域。或者連接生殖器與邊緣認知中樞的大腦區域、脊髓或外周神經受損時，能夠在很大程度上影響性健康。
癲癇患者性慾亢奮的表達與癲癇病竈在顳葉--邊緣環路中相互作用，並且受治療藥物對性作用的誘導。我們總結髮現，癲癇、中風、多發性硬化、帕金森病以及其他常見的神經系統疾病對性功能有明顯影響，並對性功能障礙疾病及其治療進行了討論。神經保留技術通過切斷自主神經的聯繫緩解男女性功能障礙。
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The advent of non-invasive functional brain imaging has clarified which regions of the brain are recruited during sexual arousal. Injuries to those regions, and to the spinal cord and peripheral nerves that link genitalia to limbic and cognitive centres, can profoundly influence sexual wellbeing. In epilepsy, expressions of hypersexuality and hyposexuality interact with the location of epileptogenic foci in the temporolimbic circuitry, and are tempered by the sexual effects of drug treatments. We outline the sexual consequences of epilepsy, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and other common neurological disorders. Management of sexual dysfunction from both disease and treatment is discussed. Nerve-sparing techniques could mitigate the substantial sexual dysfunction in both men and women through surgical disruption of the autonomic nerves during radical pelvic surgery.
