Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: The First Case of Arbitrary, Reproducible, Early Childhood AIWS-like Visual Sensations in a Meditation Setting |Biomedgrid

Alice in the wonderland syndrome (AIWS) was named after the description by Lewis Carroll in his novel. It was in 1955 when John Todd, a psychiatrist, this entity described for the first time. Todd described it as “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” of Lewis Carroll. The author Carroll suffered from heavy migraine attacks. The Alicein- Wonderland-Syndrome is a bewildering state of attacks which affect the visual perception. AIWS is a neurological form of attacks which concern the brain and cause a perception disturbance. The patients describe visual, auditive and tactile hallucinations and perception disturbances. The causes of the AIWS are not exactly known yet. Cases of migraine, brain tumours, depression episodes, epilepsy, delirium, psychiatric drugs, ischemic stroke, EBV, mycoplasma infection and malarial infections correlate with attacks of AIWS. Neuroimaging studies show disturbances of brain regions including the temporoparietal junction, of the temporal region and the occipital region as a typical localisation of the visual road.