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Abstract
Many previous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have documented sex differences in brain morphology, but the patterns of sexual brain differences in transgender women – male sex assigned at birth – with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria (TW) have been rarely investigated to date. We acquired T1-weighted MRI data for the following four (n = 80) groups: treatment-naïve TW (TNTW), TW treated with cross-sex hormones for at least one year (TTW), cisgender men, and cisgender women (cisgender individuals as controls). Differences in whole-brain and regional white matter volume and grey matter volume (GMV) were assessed using voxel-based morphometry. We found lower global brain volumes and regional GMVs in a large portion of the posterior-superior frontal cortex in the cisgender women group than in the TTW and cisgender men groups. Additionally, both transgender groups exhibited lower bilateral insular GMVs than the cisgender women group. Our results highlight differences in the insula in both transgender groups; such differences may be characteristic of TW. Furthermore, these alterations in the insula could be related to the neural network of body perception and reflect the distress that accompanies gender dysphoria.
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1 Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo Medical School (FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil; Laboratory of Neuroimage in Psychiatry (LIM 21), Research in Applied Neuroscience, Support Core of the University of São Paulo (NAPNA-USP), São Paulo, Brazil
2 Laboratory of Neuroimage in Psychiatry (LIM 21), Research in Applied Neuroscience, Support Core of the University of São Paulo (NAPNA-USP), São Paulo, Brazil
3 Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo Medical School (FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil