Alice grows out of the room, illustrated by John Tenniel for the first edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland The Granger Collection/Alamy Stock Photo
People with a form of the rare and somewhat mysterious Alice in Wonderland syndrome may one day have better diagnostic and treatment options after scientists mapped a circuit in the brain implemented in the condition.
Named after Lewis Carroll’s eponymous character, Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) describes people seeing or perceiving their own body parts – as well as those of others, and objects – in distorted proportions, such as…
