Prof. James Pfaus

  • Charles University

Professional Experience

2022 – now: Director of Research, Center for Sexual Health and Intervention, Czech National, Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic, Chair of the ESSM, EFS European
Psycho-Sexology Accreditation Committee
2021 – now: Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology and Life Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2016 – now: Editor-in-Chief, Current Sexual Health Reports
2011 – now: Fellow, International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health
2019- 2021: Visiting Senior Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Cerebrales, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico
2016 – 2017: President, International Academy of Sex Research
1992 – 2018: Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Expertise and Research Interests

● Animal models of human sexual behavior
● Neurobiology, neuropharmacology, and molecular biology of sexual arousal, desire, pleasure, and Inhibition
● Conditioned sexual responses
● Sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias

Selected Publications

1. Pfaus, J.G., & Tsarski, K. (2022). A case of female orgasm without genital stimulation. Sexual Medicine, 10, 100496.
2. Quintana, G.R., Mac Cionnaith, C., & Pfaus, J.G. (2022) Behavioral, neural, and molecular mechanisms of conditioned mate preference: the role of opioids and first experiences of sexual reward. International Journal of Molecular Science, 23, 8928
3. Ménard, S., Gelez, H., Coria-Avila, G.A., & Pfaus, J.G. (2022). Sexual experience increases oxytocin, but not vasopressin, receptor densities in the medial preoptic area, ventromedial hypothalamus, and central amygdala of male rats. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 146, 105900.
4. Goldstein, I., Komisaruk, B.R., Pukall, C.F., Kim, N.N., Goldstein, A.T., Goldstein, S.W., Hartzell-Cushanick, R., Kellogg-Spadt, S., Kim, C., Jackowich, R., Parish, S.J., Patterson, A., Peters, K., & Pfaus, J.G. (2021). International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) review of epidemiology and pathophysiology, and a consensus nomenclature and process of care for the management of Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder/Genito-Pelvic Dysesthesia (PGAD/GPD). Journal of Sexual Medicine, 18, 665-697.
5. Pfaus, J.G., Quintana, G.R., Mac Cionnaith, C., Parada, M. (2016). The whole versus the sum of some of the parts: toward resolving the apparent controversy of clitoral versus vaginal orgasms. Socioaffective Neuroscience and Psychology, 6, 32578.
6. Pfaus, J.G., Kippin, T.E., Coria-Avila, G.E., Gelez, H., Afonso, V.M., Ismail, N., & Parada, M. (2012). Who, What, Where, When, (and Maybe Even Why)? How the experience of sexual reward influences sexual desire, preference, and performance. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41, 31-62.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=JvSfYHAAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Pfaus

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