Virtually 'in the heat of the moment': insula activation in safe sex negotiation among risky men
| Autor: | Carlos Gustavo Godoy, A. James Melrose, Benjamin J. Smith, Feng Xue, Emily Barkley-Levenson, John Monterosso, Antoine Bechara, John L. Christensen, Paul Robert Appleby, Vita Droutman, Stephen J. Read, Lynn C. Miller |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Safe Sex Casual Adolescent Cognitive Neuroscience Libido Decision Making Statistics as Topic sexual health men who have sex with men Experimental and Cognitive Psychology HIV Infections risky decision-making insula 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Men who have sex with men 03 medical and health sciences User-Computer Interface Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Unsafe Sex immune system diseases Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Young adult Homosexuality Male Dominance Cerebral reproductive and urinary physiology Reproductive health Cerebral Cortex business.industry Negotiating 05 social sciences fMRI virus diseases General Medicine Original Articles Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sexual Partners Trait negative urgency business Psychology Insula 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience |
| ISSN: | 1749-5024 |
| Popis: | HIV is most prevalent among men who have sex with men (MSM), and although most MSM use condoms consistently during casual sex, some take risks. To better understand the psychology of those risky decisions, we examined neural correlates of playing a virtual sexual ‘hook up’ game in an functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner in MSM who had, in the past 90 days, been sexually risky (N = 76) or safe (N = 31). We found that during potentially risky sexual choices, previously risky MSM had more right insula activity than previously safe MSM. Real-life sexual risk was related to trait positive and negative urgency. Insula activity that differentiated risky and safe MSM was related to trait positive and negative urgency. Future work should further examine if, and to what extent, insula activation during safe sex negotiation drives MSM’s rash risky sexual decision-making. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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