Numerous studies conducted to date have demonstrated that depressed patients had multiple brain areas showing a modified activity.



Has not yet identified a specific area of ​​the brain responsible for depression and how it is not one, but rather depression is the result of interactions between neural activity areas changed.


           


Chemical changes and those relating to various concentrations of neurotransmitters are even less known.

Although researchers have now theorized deficit of certain substances, mainly norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin is responsible for the emergence and maintenance of depression. Research is even poorer in terms of correlation of these neurotransmitters with neurological changes and how they influence sexual activity in all its aspects.

From the clinical point of view, things are quite clear:

Individual depressive moods induce a general feeling of helplessness which will be reflected on all devices and body systems, slowing down their operation.

For example, rest and sleep are affected sleep and wakefulness rhythm is disrupted. Greatly weakens the patient during this period, loses appetite. They affect all activities involving liveliness, spontaneity, coordination and energy, including sexual activity.


Many depressed people say they have lost interest in sex.

At the opposite pole are those who, despite the depression, they are able to maintain an active sex life and even view sex as one of the few activities that is still enchant and arouse interest in them.

Mental depression in men is manifested by the appearance of low libido and erection problems in maintaining everything amid feelings of fatigue and general physical and emotional exhaustion.

Recent studies by a team of German researchers have shown that depression actually affects secretion of male hormones, especially to testosterone, which is reflected on gonadal function.

Depressed men have serum testosterone significantly lower both during the day and especially the night and cortisol (the body's main stress hormone) is 68% higher in men with major depression compared to those with affective tone normal.

Such specialists have concluded that lowering testosterone is one of the mechanisms by which depression influences the patient's sexual activity.

Other problems that can occur during periods of marked depression are: premature ejaculation (or its absence), anorgasmia, the inability to satisfy your partner.

This brain activity is low in depression and similar influences on female body:

It manifests itself in periods of depression a significant decrease in sexual appetite and often women describe the inability to achieve orgasm, if they still sex.




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