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Alien Hand Syndrome
By Sally Oh
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The sufferers of alien hand feel that they have no control over the move-ments of the 'alien' hand, but that, in-stead, the hand has the capability of acting independent of their conscious voluntary control.
Alien hands can perform complex acts such as undoing buttons, removing clothing, and manipulation of tools.
Symptoms
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They are believing it "possessed" by some intelligent or alien spirit.
Affected hand is viewed as "way-ward" and sometimes "disobedient" and generally out of the realm of their own voluntary control, while the unaffected hand is under normal volitional control.
“Alien Hand Syndrome”?
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Due to damage in the me-dial motor frontal region of the brain.
Disconnection occurs be-tween different parts of the brain that are engaged in different aspects of the control of bodily move-ment.
Result of damage to cor-pus callosum as the brain's e-mail server.
Brain Function of Alien Hand
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Karen Byrne • Victim of
‘Alien Hand Syndrome’
• Both left hand and leg
• Karen had surgery at 27 , which had dominated her life since she was 10.
• Her surgeon cut her corpus callosum.
• Suffered for 18 years.
• Found a medi-cation
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Movie
• “Dr. Strangelove or : How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb”
• Wheelchair-bound nuclear war expert and former Nazi.
• 1964
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIBBDuQrd-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwMsXL_YUEo