Alternating gender incongruity: A new neuropsychiatric syndrome providing insight into the dynamic plasticity of brain-sex

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 626-631

  Case, Laura K ^a   Ramachandran, Vilayanur S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTERNATING GENDER INCONGRUITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENDER IDENTITY; GENITALIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNDROME; TRANSSEXUALISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859265383     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.01.041     Document Type: Article

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