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On Dec 9, 5:11�am, Tim <tim...@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> 1: Cereb Cortex. 2007 Dec 3 [Epub ahead of print]Click here to read Links
> � � �Male-to-Female Transsexuals Show Sex-Atypical Hypothalamus
> Activation When Smelling Odorous Steroids.
> � � �Berglund H, Lindstr�m P, Dhejne-Helmy C, Savic I.
>
> � � �Department of Medicine.
>
> � � �One working hypothesis behind transsexuality is that the normal sex
> differentiation of certain hypothalamic networks is altered. We tested
> this hypothesis by investigating the pattern of cerebral activation in
> 12 nonhomosexual male-to-female transsexuals (MFTRs) when smelling
> 4,16-androstadien-3-one (AND) and estra-1,3,5(10),16-tetraen-3-ol (EST).
> These steroids are reported to activate the hypothalamic networks in a
> sex-differentiated way. Like in female controls the hypothalamus in
> MFTRs activated with AND, whereas smelling of EST engaged the amygdala
> and piriform cortex. Male controls, on the other hand, activated the
> hypothalamus with EST. However, when restricting the volume of interest
> to the hypothalamus activation was detected in MFTR also with EST, and
> explorative conjunctional analysis revealed that MFTR shared a
> hypothalamic cluster with women when smelling AND, and with men when
> smelling EST. Because the EST effect was limited, MFTR differed
> significantly only from male controls, and only for EST-AIR and EST-AND.
> *These* *data* *suggest* *a* *pattern* *of* *activation* *away* *from*
> *the* *biological* *sex*, *occupying* *an* *intermediate* *position*
> *with* *predominantly* *female*-*like* *features*. Because our MFTRs
> were nonhomosexual, the results are unlikely to be an effect of sexual
> practice. Instead, the data implicate that transsexuality may be
> associated with sex-atypical physiological responses in specific
> hypothalamic circuits, possibly as a consequence of a variant neuronal
> differentiation.
>
> � � �PMID: 18056697 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
> --http://www.last.fm/listen/user/dyslimbic/loved

Sure that's not shit leaking out of their mile wide
assholes they're smelling?