Structural connectivity networks of transgender people

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3527-3534

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

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Graph theory; Probabilistic tractography; Structural connectivity; Transgender

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSGENDER; GENDER DYSPHORIA; GENDER IDENTITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOBAR CONNECTIVITY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSGENDER; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY NETWORK; TRACTOGRAPHY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; TRANSGENDER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GENDER DYSPHORIA; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948686454     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu194     Document Type: Article

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