Homosexuality is an innate phenomenon
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The results of brain studies of hetero- and homosexual men reinforce the point of view of researchers who consider the sexual orientation of the congenital.
From May 28 to May 31, 2011, the XXI neurological congress was held in Lisbon, Portugal. One of the topics discussed was the determinism of the person's sexual orientation by the structure of his brain. The state of affairs in this area of research was outlined by Jerome Goldstein, director of the Center for Clinical Research (San Francisco, USA).
The pioneer of the research was the neurologist Simon Le Wei, who in 1991 discovered a distinct difference in the structure of the brain of the bodies of dead homosexuals and people with heterosexual orientation uncovered by him. Specific areas of the anterior part of the hypothalamus in heterosexual men were 2-3 times more than in heterosexual women, the same situation I was observed in gay men.
Studies conducted in the 2000s, when the distribution received high-tech diagnostic equipment, prove the "innate" sexual orientation.
Ivanka Savic-Berglund and Per Lindström from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2008, using magnetic resonance scanning, measured the blood flow in the brain of people of all sexes and sexual orientations and found a difference in the size of the amygdala (this part of the brain affects emotional reactions) ; The almond-shaped bodies of the examined homosuals were similar to almond-shaped bodies of heterosexual women, and those belonging to lesbians - to heterosexual males.
A group from Queen Mary's College (Great Britain), under the leadership of Kazi Rahman, in 2005 found that heterosexual men and lesbians are better positioned in space because of the more developed right hemisphere of the brain than homosexuals and heterosexual women. But heterosexual women and homosexuals are more talkative at the expense of the developed left hemisphere.
Although homosexuality has long ceased to be considered a mental disorder (the World Health Organization excluded homosexuality from the list of diseases in 1992) conducted in 2010 by a group of Professor Michael King of the University of London College of Medicine School of Medicine (UK), a survey of 1,400 psychiatrists and psychoanalysts showed that almost 1 / 6 of them have ever worked with clients to overcome or reduce homosexuality. Curiously, only 4% admitted that they would have agreed to such a job again, since such patients are often asked by patients themselves who are under pressure from the environment.
Scientists agreed that further studies of straight people, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals - neurobiological, hormonal, genetic - will help to bring complete clarity into the matter. Dr. Goldstein begins long-term follow-up of identical twins who will undergo magnetic resonance imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography to compile "brain maps."
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