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| | Mental Equipment |
 | | Arousal was defined by Singer and Associates (1993) as a multidimensional construct that refers to an energizing function of the mind and body, varying on a continuum from low (deep sleep) to high (extreme excitement). | | | The psychological and sport psychological literature is replete with studies examining the relationship between arousal and performance. | | | One of the oldest psychological theories on the relationship between arousal and performance is the "Inverted-U Hypothesis" or "Yerkes-Dodson Law." Simply stated, this theory suggests that optimal performance is achieved with increases in arousal until further increases in arousal lead to performance decrement. |
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http://www.tennisserver.com/mental-equipment/me_9_95.html
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| | Coma Recovery Association, Inc. - Article - Explaining coma arousal therapy - Author - Jacqueline Baker, RN, ... |
| | The theoretical underpinnings of coma arousal therapy lie in achieving wakefulness in the patient and capitalizing on the adaptability or plasticity of the brain. | | | The process of coma arousal may be likened to the process a baby goes through in developing an awareness of self and the environment. | | | This paper has described the theoretical and physiological underpinnings of coma arousal therapy, methods of stimulating vital sensory modalities and activities that nurses in acute and rehabilitative care areas may employ to implement the principles of such therapy. |
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http://www.comarecovery.org/comaarousal.shtm
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| | The Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) Meter |
| | A low level of cortical arousal is desirable for relaxation, hypnosis, and the subjective experience of psychic states and unconscious manifestations. | | | This is similar to Freud's early findings, that high arousal in a neurotic is experienced as internal excitement, which is unpleasant, whereas a person who is substantially free from neurosis experiences arousal as energy for incitement, i.e. | | | Proportional to a client's erasure or transcendence of traumatic material there is an increased capacity to operate at high arousal, in a relaxed state without discomfort, and at a high emotional tone. |
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http://www.trans4mind.com/psychotechnics/gsr.html
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| | eMJA: Arousal disorders in women: complaints and complexities |
| | Female sexual arousal disorders constitute a varied spectrum of difficulties, ranging from the total absence of genital or subjective pleasurable arousal to feelings of persistent genital arousal in the absence of sexual desire. | | | Female sexual arousal disorders constitute a varied spectrum of difficulties ranging from the total absence of genital or subjective pleasurable arousal to feelings of persistent genital arousal in the absence of sexual desire. | | | Female sexual arousal disorder has been defined as "the persistent or recurrent inability to attain or maintain sufficient sexual excitement, causing personal distress, which may be expressed as a lack of subjective excitement or genital lubrication/swelling or other somatic responses". |
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http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/178_12_160603/lei10725_fm-1.html
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| | Increasing Sexual Desire and Arousal |
| | Arousal refers to the physiological response to sexual stimuli. | | | Such therapy is aimed at enhancing sexual fantasies and focusing one's attention on sexual stimuli. | | | Aside from pharmacologic solutions, women can also choose behavioral therapy to help increase sexual arousal. |
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http://realdivas.netfirms.com/sexdesire.html
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| | Selective Attention and Arousal |
| | Hebb hypothesized that low arousal levels would produce negative behavioral responses, and support was found for this in a study by Heron (1957). | | | The situation need not be a life threatening one in order to produce arousal, rather, many activities are associated with arousal. | | | Social psychologists have maintained that cognitive dissonance may produce arousal. |
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http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/students/arousal.htm
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| | A Cartography of the Ecstatic and Meditative States |
| | Along the perception-hallucination continuum of increasing arousal of the sympathetic nervous system (ergotropic arousal), man--the self-referential system--perceptually-behaviorally (cortically) interprets the change (drug-induced or "natural") in his subcortical activity as creative, psychotic, and ecstatic experiences (2). | | | Trophotropic arousal results from an integration of parasympathetic with somatomotor activities to produce behavioral patterns that conserve and restore energy, a decrease in sensitivity to external stimuli, and sedation. | | | Ergotropic arousal denotes behavioral patterns prepatory to positive action and is characterized by increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system and an activated psychic state. |
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http://www.mimbres.com/holp/holpath/cartog.htm
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| | IPT Journal - "Misuse of Psychophysiological Arousal Measurement Data" |
| | This index is computed by using the generally agreed upon formula by which the client's arousal responses to the different offense behaviors are divided by his or her arousal responses to the mutual adult situations. | | | The only valid purpose of arousal measurement data is to select appropriate targets for treatment and, later, to see whether the treatment was effective in order to assess the probability of the deviant behavior occurring in the future. | | | As mentioned before, some practitioners with limited training and experience state that any arousal to deviant stimuli indicates a deviancy and should be treated. |
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http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume5/j5_1_5.htm
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| | TIP: Concepts |
| | The concept of arousal has been a major aspect of many learning theories and is closely related to other important concepts such as anxiety, attention, and motivation. | | | Mandler (1984) argues that arousal is the key element in triggering emotional behavior. | | | Berlyne (1960) attempted to explain the relationship between arousal and curiosity based upon Hull's drive reduction theory. |
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http://tip.psychology.org/arousal.html
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| | Philosophy of Arousal: "What I wish I had been told about sex when I was young" |
| | Type 3 arousal occurs much less often and is harder to recognize; we are usually more involved in the other emotion. | | | Type 6 arousal is what is most often thought of when the subject is considered. | | | Type 6 arousal normally occurs with the person's awareness of the arousal as sexual and the source of the stimulation. |
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http://www.xenodochy.org/article/arouse.html
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| | A new definition of death based on the basic mechanisms of consciousness generation in human beings |
| | According to these important facts that shows the relevance of the interaction of both components of consciousness (arousal and awareness) to govern conscious behavior in humans, I have recently presented a definition of human death.5 I used the term capacity for consciousness as synonym for arousal. | | | Two physiological components control conscious behavior: arousal and content of consciousness.6 The arousal represents a group of behavioral changes that occurs when person awakens from sleep or transits to a state of alertness.7 | | | Plum10 has emphasized that the "non-specific mechanisms ascending from the rostral brainstem and diencephalon importantly and possibly inseparably activate and integrate both the arousal and the cognitive aspects of human consciousness". |
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http://www.changesurfer.com/BD/Papers/Calixto1.html
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| | Timmons & Hamilton: Drugs, Brains & Behavior -- Ch 8 |
| | The idea that a brain area was responsible for arousal set the stage for the complementary notions that a brain area could be directly responsible for putting an animal to sleep, i.e., sleep may be an active process rather than a passive result of reduced sensory stimulation. | | | The importance of this formulation is not just that behavior changes when the level of arousal changes, but that behavior is also an important way to achieve a change in arousal. | | | In summary, the brain systems that control arousal are subject to the same controls and interactions that we have seen for other behaviors (cf., Fig. |
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http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lwh/drugs/chap08.htm
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| | Zestra Massage Oil May Help Women With Sexual Arousal Problems |
| | The researchers looked at changes perceived in the level of arousal, desire, satisfaction with arousal, genital sensation, and ability to have an orgasm. | | | A small study, reported in the January issue of the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, found the botanical massage oil Zestra to be much more effective than a placebo oil for enhancing sexual arousal when applied to the genitalia. | | | The manufacturer-funded research included just 20 women, but one of the nation's top sex therapists says she is impressed by it. |
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http://www.webmd.com/content/article/60/66946.htm
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| | Sex: The science of sexual arousal |
| | Men and women experience sexual arousal very differently, not only physiologically but psychologically, according to researchers who are studying arousal using an array of new and refined methods. | | | Those methods are making it possible for researchers to understand the causes of real-world problems, such as sexual dysfunction and high-risk sexual behavior (see pages 54 and 58). | | | But they are also giving researchers the means to explore basic questions about the nature of sexual arousal and how its different components--such as physiological arousal and subjective experience--are related to each other. |
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http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr03/arousal.html
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| | NEWSHE: Guests/Experts - Dr. Sandra Leiblum |
| | These physiologic signs of arousal are usually experienced as unrelated to any subjective sense of sexual excitement or desire. | | | Whereas hypersexuality refers to excessive desire with or without persistent genital arousal, PSAS refers to physiologic arousal in the absence of conscious desire, which is what makes it so perplexing. | | | The patient was described as a 51- year-old woman with a "continual, distressing feeling of sexual arousal." Androgen values were within normal limits, and results of abdominal computed tomography were unremarkable, including the adrenal glands, lumbosacral spine, and pelvis. |
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http://www.newshe.com/leiblum.shtml
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| | Arousal |
| | In Arousal, Bader discusses the role of sexual fantasy as an unconscious problem solver and describes how his patients have come to understand the background, logic, and positive messages of their fantasies. | | | Unlike most other animals, human beings of both sexes are potentially capable of sexual arousal throughout the year, and there is therefore no human "mating season". | | | Erotica is what I like; pornography is what you like, you pervert". |
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http://www.jahsonic.com/Arousal.html
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| | Stress -- The Psychology of Stress Management |
| | A basic relaxation technique such as Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) consciously helps muscles to relax, and, because muscle tension is one of the triggers of arousal, the PMR process, by decreasing muscle tension, essentially tells the body that the perceived danger is over and that systems can return to normal. | | | This anger may be conscious or unconscious, but as long as it persists a state of physiological arousal will be maintained. | | | Fortunately, this sort of arousal can be reduced by practicing some form of relaxation. |
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http://www.guidetopsychology.com/stress.htm
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| | Sexual Arousal Dysfunction |
| | A lifelong diminished capacity for sexual arousal may be related to ignorance of genital anatomy and function,... | | | A study found the botanical massage oil Zestra to be much more effective than a placebo oil for enhancing sexual arousal when applied to the genitalia. | | | Resources for women dealing with sexual function problems such as lack of desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, and pain. |
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http://www.rhodiola.co.uk/10/sexual-arousal-dysfunction.html
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| | Arousal and the Menstrual Cycle: |
| | The objective of the experiment was to investigate a hypothesised relationship between the two phenomena discovered by Macrae et al. | | | Response Facilitation theory (Allen, Kenrick, Linder and McCall, 1989) States that when a person is in a state of high arousal, their judgements of another person will become slightly exaggerated. | | | A fairly major flaw with misattribution theory is that it does not account for the more negative scores for unattractive people predicted by Response Facilitation theory. |
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http://www.scienceatclifton.co.uk/clifton/2004/david.htm
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| | Sexual Arousal Disorder |
| | Sexual Arousal Disorder is the inability to attain or maintain adequate genital lubrication, swelling or other somatic responses, such as nipple sensitivity. | | | Also, diminished blood flow to the genital area, either as a result of aging, or some kind of pelvic injury or pelvic surgery can impact on response. | | | If your hormones are where they should be, you may want to consider talking to your doctor about trying a blood flow enhancing medication (like Viagra) or device (like the EROS-CTD). |
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http://www.newshe.com/factsheets/Sexual_Arousal_Disorder.shtml
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| | Kundalini Warning! Investigation and Diagnosis of 76 Cases of Kundalini Arousal. |
| | Is it dangerous to throw oneself into techniques, said to heighten your level of consciousness, as yoga, meditation, healing and different physical- and psychic therapies? | | | The Network's Else Johansen explains that they try to create a forum, where different points of view can be discussed so that the knowledge about Kundalini arousal increases. | | | Burning heat or ice-cold currents moving up the spine, and in most cases, reaching the head. |
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http://kundalini-info.org/natverk.html
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| | Zestra - Increasing Satisfaction, Desire, Arousal & Pleasure |
| | The only clinically-proven solution to help women regain their ease of sexual arousal by increasing sensitivity, warmth and sensation when applied directly to the clitoris, labia and vaginal opening with gentle massage. | | | It is however, intended to provide quality sexual experiences for women that result in greater arousal, orgasmic capability and more satisfying sex. | | | The gentle massage of Zestra’s all-natural patented formulation helps promote increased blood flow and pleasurable sensation in the given area -- in this case, the female genitalia. |
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http://www.askzestra.com
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| | Inducing Altered States of Consciousness with binaural beat audio for altered states of consciousness mind altering ... |
| | The extended reticular-thalamic activating system model suggests a neural mechanism responsible for regulating generalized levels of arousal (basic rest-activity cycle, sleep cycles, ultradian rhythms, etc.) as well as behavior- or cognition-specific patterns of arousal. | | | Group interaction, counseling, guided visual imagery, affirmation, introspection, reframing, and goal orientation are all safe and effective methods of modifying an individual's social-psychological conditioning and limiting belief systems. | | | Integrated with other sensory-information techniques, social-psychological conditioning tools, and educational curriculum, binaural beats can provide access to a variety of beneficial applications and first-person experiences of expanded states of consciousness. |
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http://brain.web-us.com/inducing.htm
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| | Reducing Deviant Arousal in Juvenile: Sex Offenders Using Vicarious Sensitization Mark R. Weinrott, Michael Riggan & ... |
| | Nearly all conditioning methods used with sex offenders rely on scripts, audiotapes, or free fantasy to induce deviant arousal, that is, arousal to an illicit sex act. | | | JSOs who received vicarious sensitization immediately after referral decreased their arousal from a mean of 38% to 23% of a full erection. | | | There are political objections to the use of masturbatory satiation with juveniles, and (unfounded) ethical concerns that preclude olfactory and faradic conditioning in most clinical settings. |
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http://www.northwestmedia.com/vs/report.html
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| | Arousal Secrets |
| | Seduction techniques, mind control, remote seduction, enhance sexual perfomance. | | | Skilled management and effective teamwork are as vital in the construction industry as anywhere, yet very little knowledge exists of what ingredients make a successful team. | | | Pleasure By Design-Secrets and state of the art sensuality |
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http://www.thedatepro.com/1/arousal-secrets.html
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| | Amazon.com: Arousal: Bodies and Pleasures: Books |
| | Her prescription that releasing the Kundalini energies linked in yoga to creativity and arousal will trigger both a transformation of our sexual selves and a social revolution seems as vague and pointless as Madonna's exhortations that sex is a good thing. | | | In broaching a taboo subject, Martha Roth explores the question "Why does sexual arousal carry both excitement and guilt?" She examines the mental and physical effects of arousal as forbidden fruit, and considers how these effects direct our behavior by inhibiting or enhancing it. | | | From an early age, for example, images of sex are entwined with images of violence and punishment. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/157131220X?v=glance
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| | Tenzone Home page |
| | Develop relaxation and warm-up skills to adjust arousal level. | | | raising arousal pages for a bucketful of useful techniques to check out and apply. | | | The steps below represent a typical approach to anxiety and arousal control for competition. |
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http://www.tenzone.u-net.com/psych/arouscon.htm
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| | Annotated Bibliography on Orgasm |
| | Clitoral arousal was seen as a sign masculine libido, whereas vaginal responsiveness was the essence of felinity. | | | Tries to disentangle the physiological response from the psychological perception and meaning of it. | | | Nicely points out that everything isn't actually as neat as MandJ would have had us believe and that the four phases of arousal and resolution have conceptual problems. |
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http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~kim/orgasm.html
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| | arousal on www.arousal.com |
| | Once applied, the cream improves blood flow and dilation of the blood vessels around the clitoris, greatly enhancing sensitivity and arousal arousal. | | | Although response time varies with each individual woman and with the specific product chosen, the effects tend to develop more rapidly with sexual stimulation through touching, rubbing, and licking in the clitoral area. | | | Quality creams are safe and natural, and work through direct application to the skin. |
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http://freeweb.siol.net/vetta1/Vigorelle/arousal.htm
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| | New Gel May Improve Women's Sexual Arousal |
| | "Female sexual arousal disorder is a common yet largely undertreated condition," says researcher Stephanie Kuffel, PhD, an instructor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. | | | Alista is believed to work by increasing blood flow to the genitals, which occurs when a women is sexually aroused. | | | Soon women may have a treatment for sexual dysfunction that is all their own. |
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http://www.webmd.com/content/article/96/103655.htm
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| | Arousal Management |
| | Download the Psychological Skills Training paper, an excerpt from an IRB newsletter. | | | Check out the Joan Duda part of this site on "Task Orientated" environment and how you as a coach can create this. | | | The task of you the coach is to match the curves of each individual. |
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http://www.rugbycoach.com/mental/inverted-u.htm
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| | Sociology and Philosophy Essays: TV & Violence |
| | The social psychology point of view includes the "arousal theory", the "social learning" theory, the "disinhibition" theory, and the "aggression reduction" theory, all of which will be defined and discussed in this paper. | | | This paper has briefly surveyed the social psychology point of views including the "arousal theory", the "social learning" theory, the "disinhibition" theory, and the "aggression reduction" theory. | | | Because we are protective of our children, and because it is children who watch the most television and (presumably) the most of the violent cartoons, these studies have focused on children. |
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http://www.magicdragon.com/EmeraldCity/Nonfiction/socphil.html
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| | Sexual Arousal Disorder |
| | Sexual Arousal Disorder is the inability to attain ormaintain adequate genital lubrication, swelling or other somatic responses, such as nipple sensitivity. | | | Post a question or comment on our Message Board | | | Femprox Effective In Treating Sexual Arousal Disorder In Women |
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http://www.health-nexus.com/sexual_arousal_disorder.htm
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| | Sexual Arousal |
| | Arousal is when the clitoris is engorged with blood to cause clitoral enlargement, clitoral rigidity (erection) and clitoral sensitivity. | | | Adequate estrogen and testosterone are necessary for the brain to sense arousal. | | | Electrical (arousal) nerve stimulation causes conversion of L-Arginine to Nitric Oxide. |
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http://www.lacremedamour.com/sexualarousal.htm
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| | Buy Maxoderm Connection Arousal and Intimacy Enhancer Online at drugstore.com |
| | Its soothing and lubricating effects will instantly delight any woman who wants to add a spark to her sexual experience, whether it's for self-pleasuring purposes OR to maximize her partner's erection quality, firmness and stamina. | | | You WILL feel greater responsiveness and increased arousal with your very first application. | | | Our AROUSAL secret...patent pending Vasotran Adverto™ which helps increase orgasm intensity and frequency for ultimate satisfaction. |
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http://www.drugstore.com/product.asp?pid=140020
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| | Parasomnias - Arousal Disorders Information |
| | This means a person is awake enough to act out complex behaviors but still asleep and not aware or able to remember these actions. | | | Arousal disorders are parasomnia disorders presumed to be due to an abnormal arousal mechanism. | | | The "classical" arousal disorders are sleepwalking(somnambulism), sleep terrors and confusional arousals. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/para.html
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| | PEN Model--Thayer |
| | Toward a psychological theory of multidimensional activation (arousal). | | | Unlike extraversion and neuroticism, energetic and tense arousal are states, not traits. | | | Extraverts are usually high on energetic arousal, whereas neurotics are usually high on tense arousal. |
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http://www.personalityresearch.org/pen/thayer.html
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| | Disease Category Listing (333): Sexual Dysfunction |
| | Exploring the sexual self-schemas of spinal cord injured women | | | A Dose-Finding Study of the Tolerability and Efficacy of Maca Root in Patients with Anti-Depressant-Induced Sexual Dysfunction | | | Sexual Desire And Arousal In Post Menopausal Women |
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http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat333.html
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| | Confusional Arousal - DrGreene.com |
| | Parental attempts to comfort the child by holding or cuddling tend to prolong the situation. | | | A confusional arousal begins with the child moaning and moving about. | | | Typically, a confusional arousal will last for about ten minutes, although it may be as short as one minute, and it is not unusual for the episode to last for a seemingly eternal forty minutes. |
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http://www.drgreene.com/21_329.html
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| | Arousal |
| | However most of us manage to maintain an appropriate level of arousal by the some of the strategies listed above to interact effectively with the environment. | | | People who have difficulty maintaining an appropriate level of arousal spend more time in a high or low level of arousal and may constantly seek or avoid input to try and regulate arousal." | | | "We all have peaks and valleys in our arousal levels throughout the day. |
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http://pages.prodigy.net/unohu/arousal.htm
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| | Arousal & Libido: Healthy Sex Drive - iVillage |
| | Whether lack of desire is a new problem or something you've always experienced, you don't have to just live with it. | | | Arousal and Libido: Healthy Sex Drive - iVillage | | | Please see a description of the iVillageHealth and Well-Being Standards Policy. |
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http://health.ivillage.com/sexualhealth/sxarousal/topics/0,,4vgl,00.html
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| | Zestra®: Enhancing Female Arousal Pleasure & Orgasm Intensity |
| | Zestra is widely recognized as the "Scientific Gold Standard" for increasing female sexual arousal, pleasure and satisfaction. | | | Sexual Medicine Experts, Women's Health professionals and consumers are using and recommending this unique botanical oil due to its clinically proven effectiveness, ease of use, coupled with the established safety profile of its all-natural ingredients. | | | Hot OTC in Pharmacy Times - ZestraTM Feminine Arousal Fluid widely recommended by Women's Health Professionals. |
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http://www.zestraforwomen.com
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| | Sock Hop Arousal |
| | Twenty years later Laissez-Faire did a one-off reunion gig and, as a result, Chris and Adrian began to work on some new material with Alun helping on guitar. | | | escribed as a Dub/Funk Post-punk extravaganza, Sock Hop Arousal's influences fuse the deep 70's dub of King Tubby, Lee Perry with the angular funk attack of Gang of Four, Pop Group and the moody atmospherics of Bristol trip hop. | | | he discovery of Tania Siwick heralded the arrival of the band Sock Hop Arousal as a unique and creative force, with her soulful and evocative vocals contrasting and complimenting the heavy rhythms and syncopated bass lines. |
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