What exactly happens in our brain during orgasm? A question that deserved a proper answer and this one was provided in 2011 by researchers in New Jersey through a video showing how different parts of the brain "turn on" and react successively.
A visible result thanks to the sex therapist Nan Wise who volunteered for the experiment; which is entered in an MRI, electrodes placed on the skull.
The opportunity was therefore given to see the brain of this 54-year-old woman, initially at rest (in red), gradually activate (in yellow) as she stimulates herself in the privacy of the machine, to end with an illumination of almost all of the brain structures (in white, the maximum of activity) at the time of the orgasmic peak, before the post-orgasmic appeasement.
Thus, more specifically, the team of Professor Barry Komisaruk who led this research noticed that brain activation begins in the genital sensory parts (under the effect of self-stimulation) and then spreads to the limbic system. (emotions, memory) before spreading more widely to the reward and pleasure system of the brain . In short, the entire cartography of the female orgasm has been drawn.
What made Barry Komisaruk say at the time in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that "l ‘one of the most striking points [of this study], is that all the important parts of the brain activate during orgasm . It's a tapestry of sensations."
A research whose primary objective was to provide leads for medicine to better treat problems of lack of pleasure (anorgasmia) in women.
