Disease relevance of Psychosexual Development

• Androgen and psychosexual development: core gender identity, sexual orientation and recalled childhood gender role behavior in women and men with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) [1].

Psychiatry related information on Psychosexual Development

• In the human, in contrast to nonprimate vertebrates, aromatase deficiency and estrogen resistance (alpha) does not seem to affect gender identity or psychosexual development [2].

High impact information on Psychosexual Development

• CONCLUSIONS: Hypotheses explaining the extension of prior findings to this large sample of transsexual males include a progressive maternal immunization to the male foetus either through the H-Y antigen or protein-bound testosterone or alterations in foetal androgen levels in successive pregnancies, all modifying male psychosexual development [3].
• In conclusion, neonatal estradiol is important for the psychosexual development of the male rat [4].
• A relationship appears to exist between prolactin metabolism and psychosexual development [5].
• Psychosexual development among HIV-positive adolescents in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire [6].
• The study was designed to determine whether exogenous prenatal exposure to 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (Delalutin) affects male recreational interests in boyhood and adolescence and male psychosexual development and whether total dosage, duration, and time of exposure has an effect on the previously mentioned variables [7].

Gene context of Psychosexual Development

• Freud discovered the importance of the infantile past and psychosexual development in particular, he related these findings to the psychodynamics of neurotic structures, and devised a successful therapeutic model based on his findings [8].
• At the very least, without morally justifying his procedure, he transforms the course of psychosexual development as determined by psychoanalysis into a moral imperative against which homosexuality is judged a fixated and immature state [9].

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