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J Money

Publications and source records attributed to J Money.

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PubMed1978

Congenital hypothyroidism and IQ increase: a quarter century follow-up.

Ten patients with a history of congenital hypothyroidism were recalled for IQ evaluation 16 to 26 years after an original IQ test at age 5 to 6. From childhood through adulthood, the IQ (Wechsler) increased (mean full scale IQ increase = 21; range = -5 to 43 points). Serial testing in three instances showed the timing of the increase to be sudden and unpredictable. Life achievements, mental health, and sexual adjustment were concordant with the IQ attained. The data suggest that in hypothyroidism intellectual growth may not occur in equal annual increments; with effective hormonal replacement and educational experience it may be subject to spurts of growth, with a resultant improved prognosis.

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PubMed1977

The syndrome of abuse dwarfism (psychosocial dwarfism or reversible hyposomatotropism).

In abuse dwarfism the behavioral signs include some or all of the following: (1) a history of unusual eating and drinking behavior, reversible on change of domicile, such as eating from a garbage can and drinking from a toilet bowl, stealing food, alleged picky eating and rejecting food at the table, polydipsia and polyphagia, possibly alternating with vomiting and possibly also with self-starvation; (2) a history of such behavioral symptoms as enuresis, encopresis, social apathy or inertia, defiant aggressiveness, sudden tantrums, crying spasms, insomnia, eccentric sleeping and waking schedule, pain agnosia, and self-injury, all occurring only in the growth-retarding environment; (3) retarded motor development, with improvement on removal of the child from the domiclle of abuse; (4) retarded intellectual growht, reversible on change of domicile by as much as 30 to 50 IQ points; and (5) a history of pathologic family relationships, including unusual cruelty and neglect, either somatic or psychic or both.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

Erotic imagery and self-castration in transvestism/transsexualism: a case report.

After nearly 30 years of marriage, a 51-year-old man castrated himself in order to fulfill a long-standing fantasy of being a girl. There was a prior history of cross-dressing since childhood, and a reversed erotic role imagery during coitus. There was no history of schizophrenia or psychotic depression. Pair bonding with the wife was very strong. It led the patient to elect low-dose maintenance on androgen so as to permit some degree of continued marital sex. Otherwise the patient would have preferred estrogenization and, perhaps, eventual sex reassignment. The rehabilitative program as a transvestite man has continued for 3 years.

Castration↗
PubMed1977

Pituitary function in adult males receiving medroxyprogesterone acetate.

The pituitary, adrenal, and gonadal functions of nine males (six XY, two XYY, and one XY/XYY) were studied after at least 6 months of medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) therapy for antisocial or sex-offending behavior. Five were studied both before and during therapy, four only during therapy. MPA was effective in decreasing serum gonadotropin and plasma testosterone concentrations. MPA caused no change in the 24-hour rhythm or total integrated concentration of growth hormone. The plasma cortisol circadian rhythm was suppressed but not obliterated by MPA therapy. Although a significant decrease (P less than 0.001) in 24-hour integrated concentrations of plasma cortisol was also found, the rise in the plasma cortisol level after insulin-induced hypoglycemia was unchanged.

Adrenal Cortex↗
PubMed1976

Sex, love, and commitment.

When a couple become erotically pair-bonded, whether for a night or a lifetime, they are by definition committed to each other erotically. That is the minimum. The degree varies. The commitment may be limited to the proceptive phase of solicitation or courtship, or it may include the acceptive phase of coitus, or it may extend to the conceptive phase of parenthood. People "fall in love with their fantasy" and project onto the partner a range of future commitments. If the partner fails to reciprocate, the pair-bond weakens and the partnership either dissolves or becomes eligible for marital counseling or sex therapy.

Animals↗
PubMed1976

Iatrogenic homosexuality: gender identity in seven 46,XX chromosomal females with hyperadrenocortical hermaphroditism born with a penis, three reared as boys, four reared as girls.

This paper describes seven chromosomal and gonadal females with the adrenogenital syndrome who were born with a penis as a result of extreme fetal androgenization. Four of them were reared as girls and differentiated a female gender identity with tomboyism. The other three were reared as boys, differentiated a male gender identity, and performed sexually as men with women partners. Even though these men are by no means homosexual in the everyday meaning of the term, the sexual relation is homosexual on the criteria of chromosomal and gonadal sex. The prenatal hormonal environment as well as the social experience of the rearing have thus demonstrated a formula for creating the perfect female homosexual.

Achievement↗
PubMed1975

Families of seven male-to-female transexuals after 5-7 years: Sociological sexology.

Four black and three whilte families have a male-to-female transexual member surgically reassigned more than 5 years ag. The black families were more open than the white in declaring the reassignment within the family and community. Thereby they relieved themselves and the transexual member of a need for deception, defiance, or defensiveness, and they were less scheming and manipulative. Without the anxiety of concealment, they could feel more positive about sex reassignment as a form of rehabilitation. A formal public declaration of sex reassignment, analogous to a declared change of citizenship, would be advantageous in transexual rehabilitation.

Adult↗