Seizure Makes Woman Mistake Herself For a Man

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Seizure Makes Woman Mistake Herself For a Man

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."

Even stranger, this delusion was not limited to only herself. She also saw nearby women as becoming men too. "One time another woman, a friend of mine, was in the same room, I perceived also her as becoming a male person including changing sound of her voice," the scientists reported her saying.

Prior to these delusions, the woman was completely healthy with no history of any other mental disorders, other than symptoms of depression in her later adulthood. "The patient never experienced a similar phenomenon outside the seizures," explained researcher Burkhard Kasper, a neuroscientist at the University of Erlangen in Germany. Anticonvulsive drugs later relieved her of these delusions and most of her other symptoms.

So homosexuals really do have their wires crossed!   

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Now if they could only figure out what makes SubwayKitty think she's a male panther...

Then again, just hit it with another dose of thorazine.  Nobody wants to delve into the depths of that messed up psyche.