The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome can be bewildering for both patient and physician. Lewis Carroll's (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) novel reflects his personal experience with migraine-associated disorders of perception.
A person with Alice in Wonderland Syndrome may experience:
(1) depersonalization
(2) derealization
(3) disorders of time perception
(4) disorders of visual perception (see below)
(5) other hallucinations
(6) disturbance of body perception (see below)
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Term |
Disorder of Visual Perception |
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micropsia |
objects appear too small |
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macropsia |
objects appear too large |
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peliopsia |
objects appear too close |
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teleopsia |
objects appear too far away |
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lilliputianism |
people appear too small |
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palinopsia |
visual image that persists or reappears after the original stimulus is gone |
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cerebral polyopia |
visual perception of an object as multiple images |
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metamorphopsia |
visual distortion of the shapes of objects |
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zoopsia |
visual hallucinations containing complex objects that may involve humans or animals |
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achromatopsia |
loss of ability to perceive color |
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prosopagnosia |
loss of ability to recognize faces |
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visual agnosia |
loss of ability to recognize objects |
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akinetopsia |
loss of ability to perceive visual motion |
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Term |
Disorder of Body Perception |
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macrosomatognosia |
part or all of the body is disproportionately large |
|
microsomatognosia |
part or all of the body is disproportionately small |
Specialty: Neurology
