Friday 15 March 2013

Rare brain condition: woman who sees the world upside down


A woman's world has literally been turned upside down by a rare condition which causes her to see everything the wrong way up.

Topsy-turvey world: Council worker Bojana Danilovic, 28, sees everything the wrong way up because of a fault in the way her brain processes images



Council worker Bojana Danilovic, 28, sees everything upside down because of an extremely rare fault in the way her brain processes images.
That means she reads papers from the bottom up and even has special topsy-turvey official forms to fill in for her job at the Uzice town hall in Serbia.

'I was born that way. It's just the way I see the world,' said Bojana, an economics expert.A woman's world has literally been turned upside down by a rare condition which causes her to see everything the wrong way up.

Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, pictured, diagnosed Bojana with 'spatial orientation phenomenon'

Neurological experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in the USA say she is suffering from a condition called 'spatial orientation phenomenon'.
'They say my eyes see the images the right way up but my brain changes them.
'But they don't really seem to know exactly how it happens, just that it does and where it happens in my brain,' said Bojana.

'They told me they've seen the case histories of some people who write the way I see, but never someone quite like me,' she added.

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