University of Cambridge (B.A.) University of Göttingen (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields
Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Human Sexuality
Institutions
Harvard Medical School Salk Institute University of California, San Diego Stanford University
Website
www.simonlevay.com
Simon LeVay (born 28 August 1943 in Oxford, England) is a British-American neuroscientist.
He received a bachelor's degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1966, a Ph.D. in Neuroanatomy at the University of Göttingen in Germany, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 1974.
LeVay held positions in neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School from 1974 to 1984. He then worked at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies from 1984 to 1993 while holding an Associate Professorship in Biology at the University of California, San Diego. Much of his early work focused on the visual cortex in animals.
While working at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, LeVay published an article in Science that compared the size of the "Interstitial Nucleus of the Anterior Hypothalamus" (INAH3) in a group of gay men to a group of straight men and women. This was the first scientific study ever published that showed brain differences based on sexual orientation. The study results were featured on PBS, Newsweek, Nightline, Donahue, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In 1992, he took a leave of absence from Salk to help form the Institute of Gay and Lesbian Education (IGLE) in West Hollywood with Chris Patrouch and Lauren Jardine. He never returned.
LeVay has spoken extensively on the topic of human sexuality at a number of venues and published a number of books. In 2003 he became a lecturer in Human Sexuality Studies at Stanford University.
SimonLeVay (born 28 August 1943 in Oxford, England) is a British-American neuroscientist. He received a bachelor's degree in natural sciences from the...
brain than in the female brain regardless of age. A study authored by SimonLeVay and published in the journal Science suggests that the region is an important...
say it is the quintessential product of its time." The neuroscientist SimonLeVay wrote in Queer Science (1996) that subsequent scientific research contradicted...
in the West", Rowman and Littlefield, 1982, ISBN 0-8476-6276-4, p. 39 SimonLeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, "Human sexuality", Sinauer Associates, 2006...
includes references to Bailey's studies as well as those of neuroscientist SimonLeVay and geneticist Dean Hamer. He also discusses the behavior of gay men...
research, including the work of scientists such as the neuroscientist SimonLeVay and the geneticist Dean Hamer, and with convincingly criticizing the...
50B. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0594-50. PMID 8197445. Hamer, Dean; SimonLeVay (May 1994). "Evidence for a Biological Influence in Male Homosexuality"...
nature-nurture interactionist perspective included Simon Baron-Cohen, Steven Pinker, SimonLeVay, David Buss, Glenn Wilson, Robert Plomin and Anne Campbell...
Abuse of Research into Homosexuality is a 1996 book by neuroscientist SimonLeVay on the scientific explanations for homosexuality. Boellstorff, Tom; Cohen...
Sociomedical scientist Rebecca Jordan-Young challenges researchers like SimonLeVay, J. Michael Bailey, and Martin Lalumiere, who she says "have completely...
148–159. doi:10.1038/nrg.2017.104. PMC 5985927. PMID 29335645. LeVay, Simon. "SimonLeVay's website". Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved...
North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) in gay-pride parades. SimonLeVay; Elisabeth Nonas (1997). City of Friends: A Portrait of the Gay and Lesbian...
2013-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) David W. Koerner; SimonLeVay (2000). Here Be Dragons : The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life...
Born That Way?, about the work of the homosexual British neuroscientist SimonLeVay, meeting a religious opponent of homosexuality, and a psychotherapist...
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heterosexuality, believing that this undermined his arguments. The neuroscientist SimonLeVay criticized Sullivan's attempt to show that Paul did not condemn homosexuality...
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