article_snippet: Doctors say a 45-minute epileptic seizure may have caused a transgender woman to revert back to being a man.
article_snippet: But after suffering an epileptic seizure, a woman radically changed a woman mind about a woman gender - and a woman psychiatrist said it may be because the fit triggered biological changes.
article_snippet: In a medical journal, psychiatrist Dr John Parkinson wrote: 'It may be that an epileptic seizure affected whatever biological structures serve to confer gender identity and personality structure' 'A firm decision was soon made to revert to male identity,' psychiatrist Dr John Parkinson psychiatrist Dr John Parkinson wrote in the latest edition of the medical journal Australasian Psychiatry.
article_snippet: psychiatrist Dr John Parkinson psychiatrist Dr John Parkinson said an epileptic seizure may have changed the 'biological structures' that gave The unnamed man psychiatrist Dr John Parkinson sense of gender.
article_snippet: A delighted mother came to the rescue and within six months the augmentation had been reversed,' psychiatrist Dr John Parkinson wrote in the medical journal Australasian Psychiatry.
article_snippet: The epileptic fit caused further profound changes in The unnamed man's personality.
article_snippet: Dr John Parkinson stopped abusing drugs and alcohol and no longer showed signs of suffering Borderline personality disorder, the study said.
article_snippet: The unnamed man had suffered a brain injury when The unnamed man was younger but psychiatrist
article_snippet: Dr John Parkinson psychiatrist Dr John Parkinson said that had 'affected neither personality nor gender identity.'
highlights_snippet: Doctors believe an epileptic seizure may have triggered biological changes in the patient .