Likenesses in Gay Men and Heterosexual Women Brains, Study Finds
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Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and anxiety, a new study finds. Swedish researchers have found that some physical attributes of the homosexual brain resemble those found in the opposite sex, according to an article published online (June 16) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Their research has found that the right and the left hemispheres are almost exactly the same size in both groups. They say scans show that gay men and heterosexual women have similar wiring in parts of the brain that control emotional reactions. Specifically, key brain structures in homosexuals which govern “mood, anxiety and aggressiveness” resemble those in heterosexuals of the opposite sex - something likely to have been “forged” in the womb and not the result of later learning processes.
