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