Clinical characteristics of patients with gender identity disorder at a Japanese gender identity disorder clinic

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 157, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 315-318

  Okabe, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Sato, Toshiki ^a,b   Matsumoto, Yosuke ^a,b   Ido, Yumiko ^a,b   Terada, Seishi ^a,b   Kuroda, Shigetoshi ^a,b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Female to male type; Frequency; Gender identity disorder; Gender ratio; Male to female type

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FETISHISM; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 36448960862     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.07.022     Document Type: Article

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