The Neurology of Alice in Wonderland

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SUMMARY: Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, author of the famous Alice stories, developed migraine and associated visual symptoms late in life. There has been considerable speculation that the bizarre phenomena and weird visual imaginery in Alice stories was directly related to the author’s migraine. This paper reviews several aspects of the character and health of Lewis Carroll including his shy, introspective personality, his stuttering and his attraction to young girls. It is concluded that there is no connection between the visual symptoms of migraine and the phenomena described in the Alice stories which were written over 25 years before the author developed migraine in his mid-fifties.

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