Can affective neuroscience theory actually make our pleasures more pleasurable? At first glance, it seems like an obvious hypothesis—“core emotions can also influence sexual function and, specifically, that imbalances in core emotions are the bridge connecting psychiatric symptoms (eg, anhedonia) to sexual dysfunction (eg, anorgasmia)”—but mental health researchers from Stanford University, the Palo Alto Veterans Health Care System, Rutgers University, and the University of Padova hav...
