hrp0092s6.1 | Endocrinology Meets Diversity: Transgender Youth | ESPE2019

Impact of Cross-Sex Hormone Treatment on Structural Brain Networks

Lanzenberger Rupert

Sex-steroid hormones such as testosterone and estradiol play a key role in sexual differentiation during gestation but exert also strong effects on the body and the brain during puberty or even in adulthood. In addition, influences on cognition and emotional processing are frequently reported. The investigations of transgender people undergoing cross-sex hormone therapy provide a unique model for studying those effects on gray and white matter brain structure in vivo by using ...