Boggles the Mind
This rare condition can make objects or body parts appear unusually large or small?
What is Alice in Wonderland syndrome?
This nickname was given to Gloria Ramirez after healthcare workers became ill during her treatment?
What is the "Toxic Woman"?
What unusual odor did hospital staff report while treating Gloria Ramirez?
What is Ammonia-like-odor?
This sensory condition can make people associate sounds with colors
What is synesthesia?
This condition causes muscles, tendons, and ligaments to gradually turn into bone?
What is stone man syndrome?
One possible way a person with locked-in syndrome can communicate
What is by blinking or moving their eyes?
This was Mary Mallon's occupation when she was linked to typhoid outbreaks?
What is a cook?
According to the coroner, what heart-related condition caused Gloria Ramirez's death?
What condition causes people with significant vision loss to experience visual hallucinations?
What is Charles Bonnet syndrome?
This substance is produced in the gut in auto-brewery syndrome
What is alcohol or ethanol?
A person with this syndrome believes they are dead and no longer need food.
What is Cotard or Walking Corpse syndrome?
A certain plague in 1518 caused people to do this uncontrollably.
What is dance?
Organisms in the gut use this dietary component to create alcohol
What are carbohydrates?
This underlying medical issue is commonly associated with Charles Bonnet syndrome
What is blindness or vision loss?
It is theorized that hematohidrosis is a result of blood vessels breaking and mixing with the fluid from these glands
What are sweat glands?
Locked in syndrome can occur from damage to this part of the brain?
What is the brainstem?
Which investigator connected multiple typhoid outbreaks to households where Mary Mallon had worked?
What is George Soper?
In what century did the mysterious dancing plague occur?
What is 16 century (1518)?
What specific area of the brain is particularly involved in recognizing familiar faces?
What is fusiform face area?
Solar urticaria is reminiscent of a condition seen in this creature of the night
What is a vampire?
In Capgras syndrome, a person may recognize a familiar face without feeling this
What is familiarity or close connection?
The Dancing Plague of 1518 occurred in this specific country.
What is France?
In stone man syndrome, surgery to remove extra bone is avoided for this reason
What is surgery or injury can cause additional bone to grow?
In Alice in Wonderland syndrome, a person's ____ is altered
What is perception?
This is another name for auto-brewing syndrome
What is "gut fermentation syndrome"?