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Article: CLUE TO GAY BEHAVIOR FOUND IN BRAIN STUDY.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 30, 1991
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Byline: Combined wire services
The brains of homosexual men are structurally different than those of heterosexual men in a key area that is believed to influence male sexual behavior, a researcher has reported.
The discovery, if confirmed, would be the first detection of a distinct physical characteristic in the brain that could help explain sexual preference among men. Neuroscientist Simon LeVay of the Salk Institute in San Diego reports in the latest issue of Science magazine
that, in at least one critical region, the brain structures of gay and straight men appear to be dramatically different.
The area LeVay examined in the brains of ...