Alice in Wonderland Syndrome by Jan Dirk Blom

Author:Jan Dirk Blom
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030186098
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Latham concluded that a ‘general exhaustion of the powers’ could produce a ‘lowering of the tone of the body’, a contraction of the vessels of the brain and, due to interference by the sympathetic nervous system, a subsequent widening of the vessels and the headache . He hypothesised that ‘gastric derangement’ might also be a cause, hence his use of the term ‘bilious headache ’, which implied a derangement of the abdominal organs. As a kind of afterthought, he even noted that he saw a relationship, ‘though happily a distant one’, with epilepsy —a relationship many clinicians today still consider of relevance, even though Latham’s other ideas have long since been discarded.

Fig. 4.21Fortifications characteristic of the migraine aura; Plate I from Hubert Airy’s paper (1870)

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