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Title: Seizure makes woman believe she’s a man
Post by: Shana A on September 07, 2009, 11:14:20 PM
Post by: Shana A on September 07, 2009, 11:14:20 PM
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 (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."
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 (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."
Title: Re: Seizure makes woman believe she’s a man
Post by: sd on September 08, 2009, 04:33:25 AM
Post by: sd on September 08, 2009, 04:33:25 AM
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.
Title: Re: Seizure makes woman believe she’s a man
Post by: Miniar on September 08, 2009, 10:34:08 AM
Post by: Miniar on September 08, 2009, 10:34:08 AM
Brain surgery being anything but simple, I doubt this can be used against us.
Title: Re: Seizure makes woman believe she’s a man
Post by: Sandy on September 08, 2009, 11:52:49 AM
Post by: Sandy on September 08, 2009, 11:52:49 AM
Quote from: Miniar on September 08, 2009, 10:34:08 AM
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