Tara Marchand; (t_marcha at psych) wrote:
} Hi. I'm looking for references concerning differences in brain structure,
} function, etc. between lesbian/bisexual women and straight women. I've
} found a few articles but think there might be more that I'm just not
} locating.
My feeling is that there is too little material available to be of any
great help. Collecting brains from known lesbians with no other gross
brain pathology may take some time, and somebody must have enough
interest to make relevant morphological study.
As I remember, the material on male homosexuals is rather small, and
the found differences minimal, plus the implications of these minimal
differences are obscure and highly speculative. I refer to the autopsy
studies revealing laterality differences in one of four minor hypothalamic
nuclei without any certain function, where male heterosexuals differed
from both females and male homosexuals. I think there were no lesbian
females in that study, illustrating the difficulty to get material.
It would do no harm if I were wrong in this.
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