"male" and "female" brains
"male" and "female" brains
Posted Oct 9, 2015 20:36 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: Sharp: Closing a door by mrshiny
Parent article: Sharp: Closing a door
Yes, it's not clear but there have been interesting studies that hint at differences. There have been both live brain scans and and post-mortem dissections of brains that suggest that transsexuals brains are more similar to other brains of the gender they identify with and less similar to other brains of their biological sex.
We also know that different parts of the fetus develop at different times; genital differentiation occurs way before brain development is far along and there are hints that during fetal development, a baby may develop a female body but a more typical "male" brain and vice-versa. Again, so far we only have hints, but not exact details.
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