Medical An Italian 54-year-old man could not believe his eyes when he suddenly the icons from his computer screen, saw jump. After a dozen minutes later, it’s back disappeared, he visited a doctor. And just as well: he was suffering from the Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), caused by an aggressive brain tumour.
Once in the hospital, the man was his bizarre illnesses (dancing computerpictogrammen) soon became associated with the so-called Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), a neurological condition that affects human perception affects. Causes of that syndrome are usually drug use, seizure, migraine, or psychiatric disorders. Peculiar because the syndrome of the man was nothing previously mentioned phenomena. the
Well, he was after his delusion nauseous, he was extremely sensitive to light and had he suffered from throbbing headaches, which are all features of migraine. And these migraine attacks, found that he had already longer to suffer. A cause of his dancing icons was the migraines, however.
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The Italian doctors, affiliated with the University of Rome, decided to the fifties extensive investigations. His migraine attacks were alarming, especially in combination with his family’s history rich in brain tumors. the
Neurological examination with an EEG and CT scan produced nothing. And the doctors found no tumors in the brain of the man. But before the exercises, and was followed by a final MRI scan. It turned out eventually that he was a fairly large multiforme, a brain tumor in the left temporal lobe, the brain area just above the ear.
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