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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: Down the Rabbit Hole
Papa, Nicole Morgan, Gideon Karanam, Brijesh Comly, Alex Ataher, Aleena Cinicola, Paul
Papa, Nicole
Morgan, Gideon
Karanam, Brijesh
Comly, Alex
Ataher, Aleena
Cinicola, Paul
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2021-12
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Psychology and Neuroscience
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http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/7794
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A young girl, age seven, wakes up one more morning to find her limbs have grown dramatically overnight. Her arm, once a mere ten inches, now extends fifteen feet from her body, while her hands have shrunk to a size similar to that of a blueberry. Her leg, once a comfortable few feet from her body, has narrowed to just centimeters in width. Amid her confusion, she recalls a situation similar to her own in a story she once read about a girl who follows a rabbit down a hole: Lewis Caroll’s popular children’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. British psychiatrist Dr. John Todd noticed this same resemblance during the 1950s when six of his adolescent patients came to him complaining of migraines and epileptic episodes, simultaneously reporting symptoms parallel to Alice’s experiences.
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Papa, N., Morgan, G., Karanam, B., Comly, A., Ataher, A., & Cinicola, P. (2021). Alice in wonderland syndrome: Down the rabbit hole. Grey Matters, 2, 8-13.
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Available at: https://greymattersjournaltu.org/issue-2/alice-in-wonderland-syndrome-down-the-rabbit-hole
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Grey Matters, Iss. 2, Fall 2021
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