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The neurodevelopment of human sexual orientationQazi Rahman
School of Psychology, University of East London, The Green, London E15 4LZ, UK
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 29:1057-66. 2005..Future investigations, across the neurosciences, should focus to elucidate the fundamental neural architecture underlying the target-specific direction of human sexual orientation, and their antecedents in developmental neurobiology...
Gender nonconformity, intelligence, and sexual orientationQazi Rahman
Biological and Experimental Psychology Group, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
Arch Sex Behav 41:623-30. 2012..They also support growing evidence that quantitative measures of sex-atypicality are useful in the study of trait sexual orientation...- Men appear more lateralized when noticing emotion in male facesQazi Rahman
Biological and Experimental Psychology Group, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Emotion 12:174-9. 2012..These data indicate that sex differences in functional cerebral lateralization for facial emotion may be specific to the emotion presented and the sex of face presenting it... - Sexual orientation and spatial position effects on selective forms of object location memoryQazi Rahman
Biological and Experimental Psychology Group, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Brain Cogn 75:217-24. 2011..These data suggest that visual space biases in processing categorical spatial positions may enhance aspects of object location memory in heterosexual women... - Hair whorl direction and sexual orientation in human malesQazi Rahman
Biological and Experimental Psychology Group, School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 123:252-6. 2009..Number of older sisters was positively correlated with counterclockwise hair whorls in heterosexual men. These data were discussed in relation to prenatal factors assumed to play a role in the neurodevelopment of male homosexuality... - No sex differences in spatial location memory for abstract designsQazi Rahman
Biological and Experimental Psychology Group, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
Brain Cogn 76:15-9. 2011..Controlling for age and estimated IQ scores made no impact on the results. These data suggest an absence of a sex difference in purely visual and spatial aspects of object location memory... - Sexual orientation-related differences in allocentric spatial memory tasksQazi Rahman
Department of Psychology, School of Psychology, University of East London, London, United Kingdom
Hippocampus 18:55-63. 2008..These data may limit the number of possible neurodevelopmental pathways responsible for sexual variation in components of spatial learning and memory... - Neurodevelopmental correlates of paraphilic sexual interests in menQazi Rahman
Department of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Road, London, UK
Arch Sex Behav 37:166-72. 2008..It is suggested that processes such as developmental instability and maternal immunity may play a role in variant sexual preferences among otherwise healthy heterosexual men... - Sex, sexual orientation, and identification of positive and negative facial affectQazi Rahman
School of Psychology, University of East London, The Green, London E15 4LZ, UK
Brain Cogn 54:179-85. 2004..However, there were no overall sex differences in accuracy. These findings suggest a limited role for sex in the perception of facial affect... - Biosocial factors, sexual orientation and neurocognitive functioningQazi Rahman
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College University of London, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 29:867-81. 2004..These findings are discussed in relation to biosocial influences on cognitive differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals... - Performance differences between adult heterosexual and homosexual men on the Digit-Symbol Substitution subtest of the WAIS-RQazi Rahman
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 26:141-8. 2004..The magnitude of these differences were modest by standard criteria. No differences were found between heterosexual and homosexual women. The findings implicate within-sex variation in one test that relies on intact executive function... - Selective sexual orientation-related differences in object location memoryBano Hassan
School of Psychology, University of East London, London, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 121:625-33. 2007..These data may limit possible developmental pathways for sexual variation in selective forms of spatial memory... - Sexual-orientation-related differences in verbal fluencyQazi Rahman
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, England
Neuropsychology 17:240-6. 2003..A difference between heterosexual men and women was demonstrated on category and synonym fluency only. The findings implicate within-sex differences in the functioning of the prefrontal and temporal cortices... - Fluctuating asymmetry, second to fourth finger length ratios and human sexual orientationQazi Rahman
School of Psychology, University of East London, The Green, London, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 30:382-91. 2005..The findings constrain the number of possible neurodevelopmental pathways responsible for sexual orientation in humans... - Sex differences in a human analogue of the Radial Arm Maze: the "17-Box Maze Test"Qazi Rahman
School of Psychology, University of East London, The Green, London E15 4LZ, UK
Brain Cogn 58:312-7. 2005..These were medium to large effect sizes. The findings raise the issue of task- and component-specific sexual dimorphism in cognitive mapping... - Maternal inheritance and familial fecundity factors in male homosexualityQazi Rahman
School of Psychology, University of East London, The Green, London, E15 4LZ, UK
Arch Sex Behav 37:962-9. 2008..These data were discussed in relation to possible population-related factors in evolutionary explanations for human male homosexuality... - Developmental instability is associated with neurocognitive performance in heterosexual and homosexual men, but not in womenQazi Rahman
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 118:243-7. 2004..No associations were found in heterosexual or homosexual women. These results suggest that developmental instability is linked to neurocognitive integrity in men, but not in women... - Sexual orientation related differences in spatial memoryQazi Rahman
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 9:376-83. 2003.... - A comparative analysis of functional cerebral asymmetry in lesbian women, heterosexual women, and heterosexual menQazi Rahman
School of Psychology, University of East London, The Green, London, E15 4LZ, United Kingdom
Arch Sex Behav 37:566-71. 2008..These data suggest that lesbian women are somewhat masculinized in their functional cerebral asymmetry. The results were interpreted in the context of sexual variation in models of linguistic hemispheric processing... 
The association between the fraternal birth order effect in male homosexuality and other markers of human sexual orientationQazi Rahman
School of Psychology, University of East London, The Green, London E15 4LZ, UK
Biol Lett 1:393-5. 2005..The present study failed to find significant associations between number of older brothers and these traits...- A specific sexual orientation-related difference in navigation strategyQazi Rahman
School of Psychology, University of East London, London, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 119:311-6. 2005..The findings may limit the number of putative neurodevelopmental pathways responsible for sex differences in navigation strategy utility... - Sex differences in neurocognitive functioning among abstinent recreational cocaine usersQazi Rahman
School of Psychology, University of East London, The Green, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 181:374-80. 2005..Neurocognitive impairments associated with cocaine use are also well documented. However, there are no studies of sex differences in neurocognitive performance among cocaine users... - A multivariate twin study of female sexual dysfunctionAndrea Burri
Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King s College London, St Thomas Hospital, London, UK
J Sex Med 9:2671-81. 2012..Clarifying causative mechanisms may enhance current psychiatric nosology... - The etiological relationship between anxiety sensitivity, sexual distress, and female sexual dysfunction is partly genetically moderatedAndrea Burri
Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London, London, UK
J Sex Med 9:1887-96. 2012..However, previous correlational research indicates that sexual distress in women may be related to general anxiety per se rather than being an outcome of FSD... - The relationship between same-sex sexual experience, sexual distress, and female sexual dysfunctionAndrea Burri
Biological and Experimental Psychology Group, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
J Sex Med 9:198-206. 2012..There is little research estimating the occurrence of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) in women with same-sex sexual experience and none incorporating a key feature of standardized DSM-IV diagnoses-sexual distress... - Allocentric spatial memory in humans with hippocampal lesionsDavid M Parslow
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, De Crespigny Park, SE5 8AF London, UK
Acta Psychol (Amst) 118:123-47. 2005..This finding implicates the right hippocampal formation in spatial memory functioning in a scenario in which the visual environment was controlled so as to eliminate extraneous visual cues... - An empirical test of the kin selection hypothesis for male homosexualityQazi Rahman
School of Psychology, University of East London, The Green, London, E15 4LZ, England
Arch Sex Behav 34:461-7. 2005..Overall, little support was found for the kin selection theory in a community sample... - Sexual orientation-related differences in prepulse inhibition of the human startle responseQazi Rahman
Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology, University of London, England, UK
Behav Neurosci 117:1096-102. 2003..These data provide the first evidence for within-gender differences in basic sensorimotor gating mechanisms and implicate the known neural substrates of PPI in human sexual orientation... - Genetic and environmental influences on female sexual orientation, childhood gender typicality and adult gender identityAndrea Burri
Biological and Experimental Psychology Group, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 6:e21982. 2011..However, researchers have been unable to resolve the genetic and non-genetic components that contribute to the covariation between these traits, particularly in women... - A genome-wide association study of female sexual dysfunctionAndrea Burri
Biological and Experimental Psychology Group, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e35041. 2012..Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is an important but controversial problem with serious negative impact on women's quality of life. Data from twin studies have shown a genetic contribution to the development and maintenance of FSD... - Large sexual-orientation-related differences in performance on mental rotation and judgment of line orientation tasksQazi Rahman
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry at King s College London, Denmark Hill, England
Neuropsychology 17:25-31. 2003..The evidence suggests possible variations in the parietal cortex between homosexual and heterosexual persons... - A reanalysis of five studies on sexual orientation and the relative length of the 2nd and 4th fingers (the 2D:4D ratio)Dennis McFadden
Department of Psychology and Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 0187, USA
Arch Sex Behav 34:341-56. 2005..The constancy of the 2D:4D ratio for the White homosexuals did not appear to extend to homosexuals of three other ethnicities, and there were also subpopulation differences related to right or left hands... - Are there sex differences in neuropsychological functions among patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder?David Mataix-Cols
Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Appl Neuropsychol 13:42-50. 2006..We conclude that sex does not seem to be a major determinant of neuropsychological function in OCD, but the observed cross-sex shifts on some tasks deserve further examination...