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Title: Another part of the puzzle
Post by: Butterfly on December 22, 2009, 06:12:49 AM
Another part of the puzzle
AE Brain
21 December, 2009


http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/12/another-part-of-puzzle.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/12/another-part-of-puzzle.html)


One person we studied had untreated male gender dysphoria (S7), took no hormones and kept his transsexual feelings under wraps. He appeared to have a large INAH3 volume - in the male range - but a female INAH3 number of neurons (68) and a female BSTc somatostatin neuron number (95). Hence, this individual's hypothalamic characteristics were mid-way between male and female values