There is an old joke among stand-up comics that goes: “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” If we were as inner-directed as comedians, we neurologists might say, “Trauma is easy, neurology is hard.” Every one of our patients has, in effect, fallen into a hole, and it’s our job is to get them out again. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice jumps into a rabbit hole and finds herself in a bizarre realm in which nothing is what it seems, where everything bears little relation to the outside world.
