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Social isolation and discrimination are linked with worse physical and mental health, more illness and higher death rates, and a lower quality of life. This review combines animal and human research and clinical studies. Animal studies show that social separation, especially early in life, activates the body's stress‑hormone system (the…
In a brain-imaging study of 30 transgender men, 30 cisgender men, and 35 cisgender women, participants watched angry, neutral, happy, and surprised faces while researchers measured brain activity (fMRI) and brain choline levels (1H-MRS) and asked about anxiety and stress. The researchers found that in transgender men only, choline levels…
