Changing your sex changes your brain: Influences of testosterone and estrogen on adult human brain structure

European Journal of Endocrinology, Supplement

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^a   Cohen Kettenis, Peggy T ^b   Van Haren, Neeltje E M ^a   Peper, Jiska S ^a   Brans, Rachel G H ^a   Cahn, Wiepke ^a   Schnack, Hugo G ^a   Gooren, Louis J G ^b   Kahn, René S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTIANDROGEN; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; BRAIN SIZE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 33845416418     PISSN: 08044635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.1.02248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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