Code
01D20711
Duration
01 October 2011 → 01 April 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Biological and physiological psychology
- Clinical and counseling psychology
- Cognitive science and intelligent systems
- Developmental psychology and ageing
- Other psychology and cognitive sciences
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Medical and health sciences
- Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
- Neurosciences
- Psychiatry and psychotherapy
- Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
- Neurosciences
- Psychiatry and psychotherapy
- Nursing
- Other paramedical sciences
- Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
- Neurosciences
- Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Keywords
sexual desire
sexual arousal
sex steroids
psychological functioning
transsexualism
Project description
Context: Transsexual persons undergo extreme changes in gonadal hormone concentrations, with possible impact on psychological and sexual functioning.
Objective: Determine differential effects of androgens and estrogens on psychological and sexual function.
Design: Prospective intervention study in transsexual persons.
Methods: Standardised questionnaires measuring psychosexual functioning. Objective sexual arousal measured by fMRI. Hormone measurements by LCMS-MS.