Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

Also known as lilliputian hallucinations, this disease presents a patient with a disorienting neurological condition that affects their perception. The patient perceives human forms, human body parts, animals and inanimate objects to be considerably smaller or bigger than they are (micropsia or macropsia). It can be caused by a change in the electrical activity in the brain, compromising the normal blood flow to the parts that process visual perception and texture. It is present mainly in children but it can go up to the mid-20s or 30s.


Symptoms:
The malfunction in patients with AIWS occurs in the brain and not in the eyes; they should present physically normal eyes. The main symptom they should present are migraines. The patient also tends to have a distortion on his own body image sensing that parts of his or her body are confusingly changing size and shape. Other possible causes of this disease are the use of hallucinating drugs or infectious mononucleosis. The disease may also present lilliputian hallucinations that consist of size and shape distorted hallucinations. They also may present distortion in depth and perspective, feeling objects are closer or more distant than they really are. Linked to all these symptoms, the patient may also suffer form a lose of the sense of time. Finally, other less common symptoms are loss of limb control and dis-coordination  memory loss, lingering touch and sound sensations and emotional experiences.

Treatment:
The treatment for Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is basically attacking the migraines with anticonvulsants, antidepressants, beta and calcium channel blockers and dieting. It, as any other migraine  must wear itself out, there is no direct cure for it; the treatment is purely symptomatic. It is not contagious

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