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Transsexualism: A Different Viewpoint to Brain Changes
Transsexualism refers to a condition or belief which results in gender dysphoria in individuals and makes them insist that their biological gender is different from their psychological and experienced gender. Although the etiology of gender dysphoria (or transsexualism) is still unknown, different n...
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Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5953012/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29739126 http://dx.doi.org/10.9758/cpn.2018.16.2.136 |
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author | Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza Khaleghi, Ali |
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description | Transsexualism refers to a condition or belief which results in gender dysphoria in individuals and makes them insist that their biological gender is different from their psychological and experienced gender. Although the etiology of gender dysphoria (or transsexualism) is still unknown, different neuroimaging studies show that structural and functional changes of the brain result from this sexual incongruence. The question here is whether these reported changes form part of the etiology of transsexualism or themselves result from transsexualism culture, behaviors and lifestyle. Responding to this question can be more precise by consideration of cultural neuroscience concepts, particularly the culture–behavior–brain (CBB) loop model and the interactions between behavior, culture and brain. In this article, we first review the studies on the brain of transgender people and then we will discuss the validity of this claim based on the CBB loop model. In summary, transgender individuals experience change in lifestyle, context of beliefs and concepts and, as a result, their culture and behaviors. Given the close relationship and interaction between culture, behavior and brain, the individual’s brain adapts itself to the new condition (culture) and concepts and starts to alter its function and structure. |
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spelling | pubmed-59530122018-05-18 Transsexualism: A Different Viewpoint to Brain Changes Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza Khaleghi, Ali Clin Psychopharmacol Neurosci Review Transsexualism refers to a condition or belief which results in gender dysphoria in individuals and makes them insist that their biological gender is different from their psychological and experienced gender. Although the etiology of gender dysphoria (or transsexualism) is still unknown, different neuroimaging studies show that structural and functional changes of the brain result from this sexual incongruence. The question here is whether these reported changes form part of the etiology of transsexualism or themselves result from transsexualism culture, behaviors and lifestyle. Responding to this question can be more precise by consideration of cultural neuroscience concepts, particularly the culture–behavior–brain (CBB) loop model and the interactions between behavior, culture and brain. In this article, we first review the studies on the brain of transgender people and then we will discuss the validity of this claim based on the CBB loop model. In summary, transgender individuals experience change in lifestyle, context of beliefs and concepts and, as a result, their culture and behaviors. Given the close relationship and interaction between culture, behavior and brain, the individual’s brain adapts itself to the new condition (culture) and concepts and starts to alter its function and structure. Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2018-05 2018-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5953012/ /pubmed/29739126 http://dx.doi.org/10.9758/cpn.2018.16.2.136 Text en Copyright © 2018, Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza Khaleghi, Ali Transsexualism: A Different Viewpoint to Brain Changes |
title | Transsexualism: A Different Viewpoint to Brain Changes |
title_full | Transsexualism: A Different Viewpoint to Brain Changes |
title_fullStr | Transsexualism: A Different Viewpoint to Brain Changes |
title_full_unstemmed | Transsexualism: A Different Viewpoint to Brain Changes |
title_short | Transsexualism: A Different Viewpoint to Brain Changes |
title_sort | transsexualism: a different viewpoint to brain changes |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5953012/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29739126 http://dx.doi.org/10.9758/cpn.2018.16.2.136 |
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