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STEROID HORMONES AND RECEPTORS IN THE HUMAN BRAIN: INVOLVEMENT IN DEVELOPMENT, GENDER DISORDER, AGING AND DEMENTIA
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Quite a number of structural and functional sex differences have been reported in the human hypothalamus and adjacent structures that may be related to not only reproduction, sexual orientation (hetero/homosexuality) and gender identity (male/female/transsexuahty),but also to the often pronounced sex differences in prevalence of psychiatric and neurological diseases. In transsexuals the central nucleus of the Bed Nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc) appeared to have the size and neuron number according to their gender (feeling to be male/female) and not to their genetic sex. One of the ...
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