Special Issue: Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity
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Sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation.
During the intrauterine period the fetal brain develops in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge. In this way, our gender identity (the conviction of belonging to the male or female gender) and sexual orientation are programmed into our brain structures when we are still in t...
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CONTEXT Since the discovery of its central role in reproduction, our functional neuroanatomical knowledge of the hypothalamic kisspeptin system is predominantly based on animal studies. Although sex differences in kisspeptin expression have been shown in humans in adulthood, the developmental origin of this sex difference is unknown. OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to determine the following: ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nordic Journal of Human Rights
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1891-8131,1891-814X
DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2015.1126446