Scientists have discovered the female orgasm leads to an altered state of consciousness that could help the minority of women who cannot climax.
科学家发现性高潮能使女性产生一种特殊的意识状态，这项发现或许会对少部分无法达到性高潮的女性有所帮助。
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands unwittingly stumbled across the results after they examined the brain scans of women taken while they orgasmed.
这种状态是荷兰格罗宁根大学的研究人员在对经历性高潮的女性进行头部扫描时无意间发现的。
The team noticed that an area of the brain, known as the orbitofrontal cortex or OFC, switched off when the women climaxed.
这个研究小组注意到，女性在经历性高潮时，她们大脑中被称为眼窝前额皮质的区域突然变得不活跃了。