Transsexualism ("gender identity disorder") - A CNS-limited form of intersexuality?

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 707, Issue , 2011, Pages 75-79

  Meyer Bahlburg, Heino F L ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; STRIA TERMINALIS; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNCINATE NUCLEUS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 79960736647     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8002-1_17     Document Type: Article

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