![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Very occasionally she has an attack where she feels small - ‘about one foot high,’ she says she knows the distortion isn’t real because she looks in the mirror to see.”Īnother is that of a woman in her 90s who “stated that she had had classic migraine headache with nausea and vomiting. “With these symptoms often occurs a sensation of the neck extending out on one side for a foot or more at other times her hip or flank balloons out before, with, or after the headache. “Some hours before the attack of one-sided headache and vomiting, and often during and after attack she may teeter or reel as though drunk,” Lippman reports. One case is that of a 38-year-old housewife whose headaches began during, and had recurred ever since, her second pregnancy, at the age of 19. The American neurologist Caro Lippman noted, in a 1952 paper published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, that “the great variety” of hallucinations experienced during the migraine aura were still “little known to the medical profession.” He incorrectly claimed that “there is no description in the migraine literature of hallucinations of the sense of body image,” adding that “over a period of eighteen years of intensive migraine studies I have collected many histories of such hallucinations from both men and women,” and he then went on to describe seven cases. ![]() This article is adapted from Mohen Costandi’s book “ Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness.” ![]()
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