title: [The Alice in Wonderland syndrome: an unusual aura in migraine].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Alice in Wonderland syndrome consists in a perceptual distortion of one's body size and shape. It is rarely encountered in adults, where it is mainly associated with migraine with aura and epilepsy.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 37-year-old woman had had a migraine without aura since puberty. In the months following a parturition, she experienced several epidodes of unusual auras preceding typical migrainous headache. The aura lasted about 30min and consisted in the feeling of lengthening of the trunk and of the four limbs, associated with a sensation of well-being.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Epileptologic and experimental data suggest that the Alice in Wonderland syndrome is associated with a transient dysfunction of associative somatosensory areas in the parietal cortex.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine physique et réadaptation, groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-83 boulevard de l'hôpital, Paris, France. eleonore.bayen@psl.aphp.fr
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bayen
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cleret de Langavant
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fénelon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D049628:Body Size; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D020325:Migraine with Aura / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D010469:Perceptual Distortion / Q000502:physiology; D013577:Syndrome