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Sexual Impotence and the Limbic System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John Johnson
John Johnson*
Affiliation:
Maudsley Hospital, London; now Consultant Psychiatrist, Oldham and District Group of Hospitals
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Seventy-six male patients referred to the Maudsley Hospital with a primary complaint of impaired sexual potency were studied in order to define the natural history of these conditions (to be reported). Two of the patients who complained of impotence were found to have intracerebral tumours. In the first case the tumour was limited to the temporal lobe: in the second case it was situated in the posterior part of the frontal lobe.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 473 , April 1965 , pp. 300 - 303
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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