Does gender identity leave a measurable trace in the way we think, remember, or perceive space? A team at the gender identity clinic of a university in Türkiye set out to answer this with a full neuro...
Gender identity has a biological basis that science is only beginning to unravel. A new genetic study adds another piece to that puzzle: transgender women carry more rare variants in a family of genes...
Does gender leave a physical imprint on the brain, beyond biological sex? Researchers at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) have detected in the general population an “inverted” pattern in the whi...
Gender dysphoria remains a largely unexplored territory for neurobiology. One of the most promising avenues runs through oxytocin, a neuropeptide known for modulating social cognition and emotional pr...
The brain pattern that has been linked to gender identity in trans women is not exclusive to Europe or the United States. A new study carried out in Thailand confirms that this cortical phenotype repe...
That many people with gender dysphoria describe trouble concentrating is not just a subjective impression. A new study suggests that this distress may be physically «wired» through a speci...
Does the brain of a transgender woman resemble more that of the people who share her gender identity, or that of those who share her sex assigned at birth? It is one of the classic questions in the ne...
Towards which sex is the brain of a transgender man oriented? A new neuroimaging study suggests that, at least in the response to sexual arousal, the brain of people who transitioned from female to ma...
The hippocampus, that brain region central to memory and emotion, responds to sex hormones. And in transgender people receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy, that response becomes a window into ho...
Is the brain of a transgender person more similar to the sex assigned at birth, or to the gender they identify with? It is one of the central questions in the neuroscience of gender dysphoria, and a n...
A study published in 2026 in the journal Scientific Reports (from the Nature group) offers new data on the brain activity of transgender women, a group for which neuroscientific evidence remains scarc...
A new study published in 2026 in the journal Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience provides one of the most detailed descriptions to date of how brain circuits are organized in people with gender incongr...