Dr Julie Bakker's Lecture: My Response -- Sono Tomoka

Summary

Functional brain activation patterns in children and adolescents with gender anxiety appear to align with their experienced gender in certain neural networks.

Feedback, future research and my future plan

The lecture might have been the most difficult experience for me to learn something new in English. I did not have enough background knowledge about the lecture content, but the vocabulary we learned in class helped me a lot to understand it.

In my opinion, future researchers and scientists might conduct more studies on how hormones and genes in the prenatal environment influence the development of gender identity and the brain.

Personally, I am not planning to become a scientist or researcher in the future. This is not only because I am not good at mathematics or science at all, but also because trying to search for answers to questions that may never be fully solved seems like a very challenging task to pursue as a lifelong career for me.

However, I deeply respect and appreciate scientists and researchers who work to make our society more comfortable to live in and who help save lives by developing medical technology.