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EPATH conference, Ghent 2015 A Year in Review – mental health Johannes Fuß Institute for Sex Research and Forensic Psychiatry [email protected] Arial 24 pt, linksbündig
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EPATH conference, Ghent 2015
A Year in Review – mental health
Johannes FußInstitute for Sex Research and Forensic [email protected]
Arial 24 pt, linksbündig
Scientific output in 2014
SEARCH: gender dysphoria OR gender incongruence OR transgender OR transsexual OR gender identity disorder
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• Mental health burden
• Treatment
• Biomechanism
ENIGI: Mental health of trans persons in the EU
Mental health burden
Cross-sex hormones and Mental health I
Treatment
Cross-sex hormones and Mental health II
Treatment
Cross-sex hormones and the Brain
In trans men the gray matter volume increased after testosterone treatment
In trans women the gray matter volume decreased after treatment with antiandrogens and estrogen
Treatment
Gender dysphoria and the Brain
Trans persons before cross-sex hormone treatment
Biomechanism
Gender dysphoria and the Brain
Biomechanism
Summary
• Anxiety and depressive disorders are more prevalent in trans persons
• Cross-sex hormone treatment improves anxious and depressive symptoms
• Cross-sex hormone treatment reshapes the brain
• The white matter microstructure and brain volumes of transmen and –women fall in between that of cissexual female and male brains
