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Picture this: your surroundings transform into a large wonderland, making doorways seem miles away and turning teaspoons into giants - that's the fantasy world of Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS). It's a neurological condition where reality adopts the tale of Lewis Carroll. People with AIWS experience distortions in their perception of size, time, and space.  A rare syndrome with no more than 169 cases that have been published in the medical literature. It is common for people with AWS to experience episodes of feeling too large or too small when it comes to their own bodies, others' bodies, or objects. A recent preprint study described AIWS: “AIWS has variably been classified as a hallucination, an illusory misperception, or a disorder of multisensory integration related to body representation.” Using a technique called lesion network mapping on brain scans, the researchers discovered that, though the locations of AIWS brain lesions varied, they were mostly related to the right extrastriate body area (EBA); which is part of the visual processing of the brain; and left inferior parietal lobe (IPL); responsible for determining the size of an object. Although the sample size is small, identifying brain regions most likely linked to AIWS is a huge step in developing diagnostic tools. There is a full copy of the preprint available at https://lnkd.in/gtxHbAmp

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I don't know why this syndrome recalled Kafka's Metamorphosis!

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