Walking Dead Syndrome and other rare conditions that baffle doctors and researchers
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Here are three strange and rare medical conditions that baffle doctors, along with case studies: Walking Dead Syndrome, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and Foreign Accent Syndrome.
In these three conditions, sufferers believe they are dead, suffer severe size distortions in their visual perception, or speak in a foreign language and don't understand why or how it's happened. "The patient was complaining that she was dead, smelled like rotting flesh and wanted to be taken to a morgue so that she could be with dead people." "An alteration of visual perception is found in that way that the sizes of body parts or sizes of external objects are perceived incorrectly." "Remarkably, the brain damage had altered her melody of language, and she spoke with a German-like accent." "The brain damage altered her melody of language and she spoke with a German-like accent." Deirdre Reilly is a senior editor in lifestyle with Fox News Digital.
Here's what to know about these three conditions.
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