Seizure makes woman believe she’s a man

[Shana A]

Seizure makes woman believe she's a man
Findings suggest brain circuits tied to gender perception exist in the brain

By Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience
updated 1:35 p.m. ET, Thurs., Sept . 3, 2009

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32675756/ns/health-mental_health/from/ET

For the first time, scientists report an instance of a brain seizure making someone believe they underwent a sex transformation.

The case in question involved a 37-year-old woman admitted to an epilepsy center in Germany for seizures in 2006. In addition to instances of nausea, fear, and sometime déjà vu several times a week, she reported occasionally also perceiving the following delusion:

"I'm no longer feeling to be a female," the scientists reported her saying. "I have the impression to transform into a male. My voice, for example, sounds like a male voice that moment. One time, when I looked down to my arms during this episode, these looked like male arms including male hair growth."

[sd]

Wow, my only fear is some will now say that it is a mental issue. Or that we can be "cured" with a simple brain surgery when that is unlikely. I think that for some of us, there is more to it than just a crossed wire somewhere.

[Miniar]

Brain surgery being anything but simple, I doubt this can be used against us.

[Sandy]

Brain surgery being anything but simple, I doubt this can be used against us.

Hon, anything can be used against us.  If you like plain rather than peanut M&M's could probably be used.

If someone hates you, there is nothing rational to the arguments.  Bible thumping means nothing, that is merely used as a vehicle for hate.  Hate needs no rationale.

-Sandy