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Article: Key brain part size may determine sex drive: study.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- January 26, 2004
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New Delhi, Jan 26 (PTI) In an interesting discovery, scientists have found that size of a key brain part matters when it comes to sex. Bigger the size of the emotion centre in brain, higher would be the sex drive of a person, a study has suggested.
"A person's sex drive may be proportional to the size of their amygdala, a small emotion centre which rests at the base of the brain," a scientist at the University of Melbourne (Australia), David Reutens, said in his study published in the popular science journal 'Nature'.
Scientists traditionally think of the amygdala as the part of the brain that processes reactions to fear while some reseachers think it ...