Seok-Kyun Oh1, Gwang-Won Kim2,
Jong-Chul Yang3, Seok-Kwun Kim4, Gwang-Woo Jeong2,5
1Research Institute for
Medical Imaging (RIMI), Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University
Hospital, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of; 2Interdisciplinary Program
of Biomedical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea,
Republic of; 3Department of Psychiatry, Chonbuk National
University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea, Republic of; 4Department
of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Dong-A University College of
Medicine, Busan, Korea, Republic of; 5Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University
Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of
Transsexualism is a type of the gender identity disorder and it is defined by a desire to be accepted as a member of the opposite sex. Neuroimaging studies for the male-to-female (MTF) transsexuals with a sex reassignment surgery and hormone supplementary therapy have not yet been reported. This study utilized a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to contrast the differential brain activation patterns in response to visual stimulation with each male and female erotic nude pictures in MTF transsexuals.