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tro-shock therapy (applied from temple to temple, and widely used for treating manic-depressives) and not only ceased to be depressed but also announced that he had "become a woman mentally". Despite his unchanged physical maleness, he is now a full-time femme dresser, and operates the business success- fully as his "sister". No evidence exists for any TV tendency prior to the sudden change in either case - and neither patient would have any reason to conceal such a tendency after the change had taken place.

5) Perhaps the most startling evidence comes from experiments on rats by Dr. A. E. Fisher at the University of Pittsburgh. Injection of male hormone into a certain spot in the brain of adult male rats led to sudden change to a "female" behavior pattern- which included nest building and attempting to nurse any baby rats that were available. (It must be hard for a rat to express the TV urge, but these did the best they could.) Lest you place too much signifi- cance on this reverse effect of male hormone, ident- ical results were obtained when "Versene" water soft- ener was used. Apparently the irritation of a cer- tain group of brain cells was the important factor, rather than specific chemical activity. Two other interesting observations were made: a shot near to, but not quite in, this area led to alternating be- havior, "his responses being determined by the type of object that happens to fall in his sensory field." I know THAT feeling; you're rushing about your male business and suddenly a dress in a store window reaches out and trips you.....The other point is that not ALL male rats showed this reversal; only certain individual seemed to be "TV-prone", but these could be made to respond repeatedly. (Science, Vol. 148, p 329, 16 April 1965). Fisher did not relate this phenomenon to human TV, and has not answered letters from myself and Dr. Benjamin asking for comment and offering cooperation.

6) The physical scientists' experiments are

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