什么是爱丽丝梦游仙境综合症？

爱丽丝梦游仙境综合症(AIWS)是一种罕见的疾病，它会破坏大脑处理感官输入的能力。这会影响患者感知周围事物大小以及感知自己身体或外观的能力，还会产生扭曲现实的感觉。

Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a rare condition that disrupts your brain’s ability to process sensory input. The disruption affects how you perceive the size of things you see around you, the feel or look of your own body, or both. It can also distort your sense of reality.

AIWS会有哪些症状？

“当汽车行驶时，两边的建筑突然变大了，感觉像在向我逼近，”患者乔希·弗斯说。一天放学回家后，乔希告诉他的母亲，“老师们的脸变得越来越大，与他们的身体不成比例，教室的墙壁变得越来越长，离他越来越远”。

 "As the car was moving, the buildings on either side suddenly became enlarged and felt as if they were closing down on me," says Josh Firth, one of the patients.After returning from school one day, Josh told his mother how "his teachers' faces became bigger, out of proportion to their bodies and the walls of the schoolroom got elongated and further away from him".

据他母亲说，这些离奇的事件在晚上最可怕，“他房间的边缘在变化，墙壁变得摇摇晃晃，向他逼近”，导致了夜惊。有时，她的儿子会说她的声音听起来不一样，变得“音调更低，速度更慢”。

These bizarre episodes were most frightening at night, when "the edges of his room were changing, the walls becoming wonky and closing down on him", leading to night terrors, according to his mother. She says that, at times, her son would say her voice sounds different and he experiences her speech at a "lower pitch and a slower rate".

在过去，爱丽丝梦游仙境综合症常被认为是一种基本上无害的疾病，不需要医疗干预。普通人群中有不同程度的症状，高达30%的青少年有轻度或短暂的综合征经历。

In the past, Alice in Wonderland syndrome has been commonly dismissed as a largely harmless condition that doesn't require medical intervention. Some degree of symptoms are reported in the general population, with up to 30% of adolescents reporting mild or transient experiences of the syndrome.

简·德克·布洛姆教授一直致力于研究爱丽丝梦游仙境综合症，他强调医生需要认真对待描述这些症状的患者。“这是一个真正的挑战，”他说，“这意味着患者可能多年都没有发现它。”

Jan Dirk Blom, a professor has dedicated himself to studying Alice in Wonderland syndrome, emphasises the need for doctors to take patients describing these symptoms seriously.  "That is a real challenge," he says, “This often means it can be missed in patients for years.”

但是，对患有爱丽丝梦游仙境综合症的患者进行大脑研究并不容易。简说:“我认为最大的障碍是AIWS相对罕见，并且症状很短暂。因此，在病人发病时，很难对他们的大脑进行及时扫描。”

But conducting brain studies that get to the root of what is going on in patients with Alice in Wonderland syndrome are not easy. "I think the big obstacle is the rarity of AIWS, and the fact that symptoms are fleeting," says Jan. "And so it's difficult to scan a patient's brain while they're experiencing these symptoms."

当前，爱丽丝梦游仙境症没有标准的处理方法。 

Currently, there is no standard treatment for Alice in Wonderland syndrome. 

索尼娅（乔希的妈妈）说:“发病时，看看窗外或镜子对他很有帮助。观察回想自己的面部特征可以缩短他的发病时间。”乔希现在外出的时候会随身携带一面袖珍镜子，在他需要的时候帮助他“认清现实”。

"Looking outside the window, or looking in the mirror really helps him, when everything is going on, as he looks at his facial features and helps shorten his episode of Alice," says Sonja. Josh now carries a pocket mirror with him when he is not at home, just in case he needs "a reality check".

重点词汇

1.elongated adj.细长的，拉长了的，偏长的 v.把……拉长；延长（声音）；

The light from my candle threw his elongated shadow on the walls. 

我的烛光把他细长的影子投射在了墙上。

2. episode n.一段经历，一段时期；（电视剧或广播剧的）集，一集；疾病的发作；

An episode of major depression may occur only once in a person's lifetime, but moreoften, it recurs throughout a person's life.

重度抑郁发作可能在一个人的一生中仅出现一次，但更经常的是，它在一个人的一生中反复出现。

3. perceive  vt.认为，理解；察觉；意识到

Voters perceive him as a decisive and resolute international leader. 

选民认识到他是一位果断、坚定的国际领袖。

原文链接

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230227-the-original-and-most-iconic-male-model

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/13/the-male-beauty-myth