Regional cerebral blood flow changes in female to male gender identity disorder

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-161

  Nawata, Hideyuki ^a   Ogomori, Koji ^a   Tanaka, Mariko ^a   Nishimura, Ryoji ^a   Urashima, Hajime ^a   Yano, Rika ^a   Takano, Koichi ^a   Kuwabara, Yasuo ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gender identity disorder; Single photon emission computed tomography; Statistical parametric mapping; Transsexuality

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HUMAN; INSULA; NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 77949985880     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2009.02059.x     Document Type: Article

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