Sarah I Van der Weele

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome as a Presenting Manifestation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.

Frontiers in Neurology May 9, 2019 Tirza Naarden, Bastiaan C. Ter Meulen, Sarah I Van der Weele et al.

Background: Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a rare neurological disorder characterized by distortions of visual perception (metamorphopsias), the body image, and the experience of time, along with derealization and depersonalization. Some 85% of patients present with perceptual distortions in a single sensory modality, e.g., only visual or only somesthetic in nature. Moreover, the...