Regional gray matter variation in male-to-female transsexualism

NeuroImage

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 904-907

  Luders, Eileen ^a   Sánchez, Francisco J ^a   Gaser, Christian ^b   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Narr, Katherine L ^a   Hamilton, Liberty S ^a   Vilain, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Gender identity; MRI; Transgender; VBM

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; TRANSSEXUALISM;

BRAIN; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 67349224068     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.03.048     Document Type: Article

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