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Doctors believe that once they get a better understanding of the electrical impulses in the brain, they could find a way to control the distortion of the objects and time. Until then, they can only try to make you aware and comfortable.
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Patients also have reported feeling their brain slamming on the inside of their skull, like a headache that will never go away.
Patients with this disorder have a past of epilepsy or chronic migraines, but not everyone with epilepsy or migraines has AIWS. The stress on their body causes their brain to overload on sensory information and doesn't allow for what's being seen to be translated properly.
A British psychiatrist, John Todd, first described AIWS in 1955. He called the disease AIWS because of its remarkable resemblance to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.
In addition to perceiving images as smaller or larger than the actually are, the person will also experience a sensation of huge amounts of time passing. They will also feel like they're spinning in their room or the world is moving faster than they can keep up with.
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS), or Todd Syndrome, is a neurological disorder that primarily affects children.
It causes images to be perceived as smaller (micropsia) or larger (macropsia) than they actually are.
Many doctors are still trying to figure out a treatment to cure this disease all together, but there is a way to treat it. Mrs. Mantzke is quoted saying, "Since the vision cortex is being pressed on by the brain swelling and the non-expansion of the skull, they will go in and cut a small piece of the skull out to relieve some pressure."
12 year old Ana
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