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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome requires a systematic diagnostic approach focusing on identifying the underlying cause, as treatment is directed at the specific...

Purpose. Women in prison face profound challenges, including high rates of trauma and gender inequalities. This paper aims to explore the barriers to delivering effective psychotherapy in these settin...

“Historically, the most terrible things war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn The irony is unbearable. US President Donald Trump has satura...

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Radical embodiment faces two interrelated challenges. The first concerns what it offers metaphysically and epistemically as a comprehensive investigative framework that approaches it criticizes do not. The second, related challenge, concerns a tension between understanding targets of investigation as simultaneously both holistic and multiscaled. The NeuroEcological Nexus Theory (NExT) is presented as illustrative of a radical embodied approach that faces these challenges. While NExT clearly offers an epistemic toolkit for studying its three primary scales of investigation—namely, neural populations, body synergies, and ecological information—it does not offer an argument to metaphysically justify those particular scales. An answer to these challenges is offered by appealing to a complexity science conception of emergence, which is deeply interconnected with the methodology of effective theories to both identify and assess real clumps of phenomena in the world. By deeply intertwining its metaphysics and epistemology, this conception of emergence offers an answer to the challenges faced by NExT and other radical embodied approaches.

This open access book exposes the role of agency in the history of life. Agency is understood as the capacity of an organism to act, make decisions, ...

A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.

IntroductionChildhood autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a global public health concern and its prevalence is increasing rapidly in developing countries such ...

People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...

Background Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by sensory perception distortions, including altered body image perception and distortions of shape, size, motion, color, and speed. Migraine and infectious diseases are among the most common etiologies of AIWS. However, it has not been studied in individuals with persistent headache after COVID-19. Methods This cross-sectional study included a subset of individuals with AIWS symptoms derived from a survey conducted in Latin America to identify adults with persistent headache after COVID-19. For data analysis, AIWS individuals were characterized by sex and analyzed using univariable tests. Subsequently, the entire study cohort was stratified into two groups: the AIWS group and the non-AIWS group. Binomial logistic regression using the backward stepwise selection method was performed to identify the factors associated with AIWS after COVID-19. Results Out of 421 participants with persistent headache after COVID-19, 106 (25.2%) reported at least one AIWS symptom. The AIWS group was significantly younger (median age 36 vs. 39 years, p = 0.011) and had a higher proportion of pre-existing migraine (40.6% vs. 29.5%, p = 0.035) compared to the non-AIWS group. The most common post-COVID-19 AIWS symptoms were time distortion (32.1%), derealization/depersonalization (24.5%), and hyperchromatopsia (20.8%). Logistic regression analysis revealed that experiencing any AIWS symptom during acute COVID-19 was the strongest predictor for post-acute AIWS (OR = 9.937, 95% CI = 5.603–17.62, p <0.001). Other significant predictors included phonophobia (OR = 2.322, 95% CI = 1.288–4.185, p = 0.005) and depressive symptoms (OR = 1.937, 95% CI = 1.099–3.413, p = 0.022) during acute COVID-19. Conclusion In this cohort, AIWS was a notable feature in adults with persistent headache after COVID-19, particularly in younger individuals with a history of migraine. Experiencing AIWS symptoms during acute infection increased the odds of post-acute AIWS symptoms nearly tenfold, suggesting SARS-CoV-2 may be a potent trigger. Clinicians should be aware of this association and screen for perceptual disturbances in patients with post-COVID-19 neurological sequelae.

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