Cross-sex hormone treatment and own-body perception: behavioral and brain connectivity profiles
Scientific Reports February 7, 2021 Behzad S. Khorashad, Amirhossein Manzouri, Jamie D. Feusner et al.
Abstract Referrals for gender dysphoria (GD), characterized by a distressful incongruence between gender identity and at-birth assigned sex, are steadily increasing. The underlying neurobiology, and the mechanisms of the often-beneficial cross-sex hormone treatment are unknown. Here, we test hypothesis that own body perception networks (incorporated in the default mode network—DMN, and partly...