Researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey have hinted at similarities between female sexual climax and seizure.

Nan Wise, one of the volunteers for the study, informs that the experts performed an MRI scan to find out how oxygen is used in the brain during sexual climax. The test proved beyond doubt that a process as complex and vaguely understood as female orgasm can only be equated with the epileptic seizure.

Ms Wise, who wants to use the finding in her Ph. D paper, notes that at the brain level, no event other than female sexual climax is comparable to the epileptic seizure.

The results of the study, which was spearheaded by Dr Barry Komisaruk, were presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in US capital Washington DC. Dr Komisaruk and his colleagues played a video footage of the magnetic resonance scan of volunteer Nan Wise. Forty areas in the brain were imaged within a very short span of time and a change in colour from dark red to bright yellow was observed during orgasm.

Lead researcher Dr Komisaruk said in the Washington conference that the objective of the experiment was to monitor how women get pleasure from sexual climax, indicating that future research on female sexual dysfunction treatment can possibly be benefitted from the latest study. The trick is to know “how to activate the pleasure regions of the brain”, he said.

As of now, the intricacies of female orgasm largely remain an elusive topic to most people. However, some symptoms of female sexual dysfunction are treatable using testosterone therapy and patches (Intrinsa).