Gender

Question 1

How is a marked incongruence between the birth assigned gender and once experienced gender called?

Answer 1

gender dysphoria

Question 2

In what sex is sexual incongruence more prevalent?

Answer 2

adolescent females

Question 3

What is transsexual?

Answer 3

A transgender that changes his/her sex

Question 4

What are the two hormone treatments possible?

Answer 4

puberty suppression or gender-affirmative hormone treatment

Question 5

What mechanism is used for puberty suppression?

Answer 5

Gonadotropin releasing hormone analogue

Question 6

What age group are the children eligible for puberty suppression?

Answer 6

Tanner stage 2- going from childhood to adolescence

Question 7

How does gender affirmative hormone tr. work? age, hormone

Answer 7

After 16 yo, testosterone (girls) and estradiol+ anti-testosterone(boys)

Question 8

What are the two hypothesis for disphoria?

Answer 8

Own body perception hypothesis and sexual differentiation hypothesis

Question 9

What are brain areas involved in self-reference?

Answer 9

Medial PFC, insula, parietal cortex

Question 10

What is different in self-referential regions?

Answer 10

resting-state functional connectivity, cortical thickness

Question 11

What is the inferior fronto-occipital faciculus involved in?

Answer 11

social-emotional stimuli processing, emotional face perception, attention