• Arch Neurol Chicago · Jun 1991

    Historical Article

    Literary neurologic syndromes. Alice in Wonderland.

    • L A Rolak.
    • Department of Neurology, Houston Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, TX.
    • Arch Neurol Chicago. 1991 Jun 1; 48 (6): 649-51.

    AbstractMany neurologic syndromes are named for literary characters. For example, the "Alice in Wonderland" syndrome of altered body perceptions, usually caused by migrainous ischemia, is so called because of the resemblance of its symptoms to the fluctuations in size and shape that plague the main character in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice in Wonderland. The medical symptoms of distorted body images match the literary description so precisely that illustrations from the original book depict them very accurately. Because Lewis Carroll suffered from classic migraine headaches, scholars have speculated that he may have experienced this syndrome himself.

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