ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2017
Altered White Matter and Sensory Response to Bodily Sensation in Female-to-Male Transgender Individuals.
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- Enhancing Gender.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2022Article
- Epistemic Injustice in Brain Studies of (Trans)Gender Identity.Frontiers in sociology · 2021Article
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- Fluidity of gender identity induced by illusory body-sex change.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Biological sex classification with structural MRI data shows increased misclassification in transgender women.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Neural Systems for Own-body Processing Align with Gender Identity Rather Than Birth-assigned Sex.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2020Article
- An Investigation of Lower Limb Representations Underlying Vision, Touch, and Proprioception in Body Integrity Identity Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- A comparative study of white matter volume between postoperative female-to-male transsexuals and healthy female.International journal of impotence research · 2019Article
- Cross sex hormone treatment is linked with a reversal of cerebral patterns associated with gender dysphoria to the baseline of cisgender controls.The European journal of neuroscience · 2019Article
- Possible Neurobiological Underpinnings of Homosexuality and Gender Dysphoria.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Article
- Testosterone Effects on the Brain in Transgender Men.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2018Article
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Abstract
While most people take identification with their body for granted, conditions such as phantom limb pain, alien hand syndrome, and xenomelia suggest that the feeling of bodily congruence is constructed and susceptible to alteration. Individuals with xenomelia typically experience one of their limbs as over-present and aversive, leading to a desire to amputate the limb. Similarly, many transgender individuals describe their untreated sexed body parts as incongruent and aversive, and many experience phantom body parts of the sex they identify with (Ramachandran, 2008). This experience may relate to differences in brain representation of the sexed body part, as suggested in xenomelia (McGeoch et al., 2011). We utilized magnetoencephalography imaging to record brain activity during somatosensory stimulation of the breast-a body part that feels incongruent to most presurgical female-to-male (FtM)-identified transgender individuals-and the hand, a body part that feels congruent. We measured the sensory evoked response in right hemisphere somatosensory and body-related brain areas and found significantly reduced activation in the supramarginal gyrus and secondary somatosensory cortex, but increased activation at the temporal pole for chest sensation in the FtM group (N = 8) relative to non-transgender females (N = 8). In addition, we found increased white matter coherence in the supramarginal gyrus and temporal pole and decreased white matter diffusivity in the anterior insula and temporal pole in the FtM group. These findings suggest that dysphoria related to gender-incongruent body parts in FtM individuals may be tied to differences in neural representation of the body and altered white matter connectivity.
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