Thursday, 29 May 2014

At Puberty, Brain's Reaction to Male Odor Shifts in Children With Gender Dysphoria

Reaction of the brains of children with gender dysphoria to androstadienone, a musky-smelling steroid produced by men, changes after puberty in line with their experienced gender, finds a study for the first time in the open-access journal iFrontiers in Endocrinology/i. Around puberty, the testes of men start to produce androstadienone, a breakdown product of testosterone. Men release it in their sweat, especially from the armpits. Its only known function is ...

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