{"id":1535,"date":"2022-07-06T18:26:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2022-07-06T18:26:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:26:53","slug":"do-you-know-the-strange-signs-of-alice-in-wonderland-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/do-you-know-the-strange-signs-of-alice-in-wonderland-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know the strange signs of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few years ago, a 54-year-old man, whose name doctors kept secret, went to the hospital with a complaint of “icons jumping out of the monitor.” The strange phenomenon was accompanied by headache, hypersensitivity to light, and severe nausea. After a detailed examination of the patient, it turned out that he had Alice in Wonderland syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it and who is at risk, read our material. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is a neurological disease whose name is borrowed from the work of the same name by Lewis Caerroll. This condition is characterized by a violation of a person’s visual perception of the world around him or himself. Often, patients with a “fabulous” syndrome see certain parts of the body as too large or, conversely, too small. Recall how the hookah-smoking caterpillar said to Alice: “One side will make you taller, and the other will make you lower.” Roughly the same thing happens to patients suffering from this neurological disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By the way, most often the disease is observed in children aged 5 to 13 years, but this article will focus on a 54-year-old man who also became a victim of a distorted reality. One day, sitting at the computer, the man saw icons from the desktop jump out, hovering between him and the monitor. This went on for about 10 minutes, then all the images disappeared. At the same time, the man felt a sharp throbbing pain in his head, increased sensitivity to light and nausea. After this incident, he decided to go to the hospital as soon as possible. During the first examination of the patient, the doctors managed to find out that he had suffered from migraines for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the man said that many members of his family had brain tumors. However, computed tomography (CT) and electroencephalography (EEG) showed no abnormalities. Therefore, the man was transferred to the neurological department, where he underwent another test – magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Thanks to the scan, it was possible to identify the cause of health problems in a 54-year-old patient. It turned out to be a glioblastoma 2.5 cm long, located in the temporo-occipital region of the brain. It is this part of the brain that is associated with the spatial perception and orientation of a person, so its defeat can cause strange visions, as happened in the case of a man. Glioblastoma is one of the most common and most aggressive forms of brain tumors. For unknown reasons, it is more common in men. Glioblastomas tend to grow rapidly in size, therefore, according to doctors, it is highly likely that the tumor in the patient formed only a few months ago. After the diagnosis was established, the man underwent surgery to remove the tumor and continued treatment with radiation and chemotherapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About a year later, the patient went to the hospital again, as he had a relapse. The man underwent another operation and now, 20 months after the first episode of the Alice in Wonderland syndrome, he announced an improvement in his well-being. According to him, jumping icons, like headaches, no longer bother him. Doctors note that this is the first known case of a syndrome caused by glioblastoma. Typically, the signs of “Alice in Wonderland” occur due to epilepsy, infections, mental illness, migraines, or drug intoxication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years ago, a 54-year-old man, whose name doctors kept secret, went to the hospital with a complaint of “icons jumping out of the monitor.” The strange phenomenon was accompanied by headache, hypersensitivity to light, and severe nausea. After a detailed examination of the patient, it turned out that he had Alice in Wonderland …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-story","category-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperslife.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}