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Subject: scientific evident of homosexuality
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fireyes 14.06.11 - 08:37am
this will take time. i want people to feel free to add to this post. i will start with posting some research and links. will add more as time goes to allow others a chance for input instead of drowning out replies or chasing users off with pages of copy and paste * +
fireyes 14.06.11 - 08:38am
type-o..doh..ok here it goes... http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/gay-born-this-way-2297039.html * +
fireyes 14.06.11 - 08:39am
Sexual orientation is not a matter of choice,it is primarily neurobiological at birth. So said Jerome Goldstein, director of the San Francisco Clinical Research Centre, addressing 3,000 neurologists from around the world at the 21st meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) in Lisbon last month. * +
fireyes 14.06.11 - 08:41am
Researchers from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, using MRI scanners measuring blood flow to the brain have already found differences in the size of the amygdala in the brain, which plays a key role in emotional responses. The brains of homosexual men resembled thoseof heterosexualwomen and thoseof homosexual women resembled those of heterosexual men. * +
fireyes 14.06.11 - 08:42am
The research builds on other studies of neurological differences between gay and straight men and women. A study led by Qazi Rahman at Queen Mary, University of London, found gay men and heterosexual women share a poor sense of direction and are more likely to navigate using landmarks or by asking someone. It is heterosexual men who stick stubbornly to the map. * +
fireyes 14.06.11 - 08:43am
The right-hand side of the brain dominates spatial capabilities, so may be slightly more developed in heterosexual men and lesbians. An earlier study found gay men and heterosexual women outperformed lesbians and heterosexual men in verbal fluency. * +
fireyes 14.06.11 - 08:44am
These studies hark back to those by Simon LeVay, a gay neuroscientist at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California, who claimed to havefound structural differences in the brains of homosexual and heterosexual men. Post-mortems studied by LeVay revealed that a region of the brain called the interstitial nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus is two or three times bigger in heterosexual men than it * +
fireyes 14.06.11 - 08:46am
than it is in women. In gay men, however, this region is about the same size as in women.......YOUR TURN...DISCUSS..if nothing is added ill add more at a later time * +
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