White matter microstructure in transsexuals and controls investigated by diffusion tensor imaging

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 46, 2014, Pages 15466-15475

  Kranz, Georg S ^a   Hahn, Andreas ^a   Kaufmann, Ulrike ^a   Küblböck, Martin ^a   Hummer, Allan ^a   Ganger, Sebastian ^a   Seiger, Rene ^a   Winkler, Dietmar ^a   Swaab, Dick F ^b   Windischberger, Christian ^a   Kasper, Siegfried ^a   Lanzenberger, Rupert ^a  

^a Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Gender identity disorder; Testosterone; Transsexual; White matter microstructure

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENDER IDENTITY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSGENDER; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER MICROSTRUCTURE; ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSSEXUALISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; TRANSSEXUALISM; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84909953363     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2488-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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