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Alice in Wonderland

Loren A. Rolak, MD

Arch Neurol. 1991;48(6):649-651.

Abstract
• Many neurologic syndromes are named for literary characters. For example, the "Alice in Wonderland" syndrome of altered body perceptions, usually caused by migrainous ischemia, is so called because of the resemblance of its symptoms to the fluctuations in size and shape that plague the main character in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice in Wonderland. The medical symptoms of distorted body images match the literary description so precisely that illustrations from the original book depict them very accurately. Because Lewis Carroll suffered from classic migraine headaches, scholars have speculated that he may have experienced this syndrome himself.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Neurology, Houston (Tex) Veteran's Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication January 16, 1991.

Reprint requests to the Department of Neurology, Houston Veteran's Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, 6501 Fannin, NB-302, Houston, TX 77030 (Dr Rolak).

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