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Brain Advance Access originally published online on October 24, 2008
Brain 2008 131(12):3115-3117; doi:10.1093/brain/awn257
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Who do we think we are? The brain and gender identity

Joe Herbert

Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge E-mail: jh24@cam.ac.uk

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No-one, wrote Frank Beach, a notable contributor to the experimental study of hormones and sexual behaviour, ever died from lack of sex. But the personal, social and legal aspects of sexual behaviour are a pervasive pre-occupation in all humans. The variety and vagaries of sex can have severe implications, and the existence of homosexuality and disorders of gender identity demand some sort of explanation (Bancroft, 2008Go). Neuroscience can ask itself, therefore, why it has contributed so little to understanding human sexuality. One reason is our overall ignorance about the brain, which hinders attempts to relate particular patterns of brain activity to an observable behaviour in a way that contributes to understanding. Another is the effect of sexual mores on the study of sexuality itself: studying sex is still considered a slightly risqué career, and made difficult by the politics, constraints . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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