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07.25.04 (4 years ago)
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What is Alien Hand Syndrome ?
where it is seen ?
sorry , i have no options rt now !
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07.25.04 (4 years ago)
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| nadu wrote: |
What is Alien Hand Syndrome ?
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Persons with injuries to the brain including, of course, the corpus callosum, sometimes report that one of their limbs, typically an arm, acts as though it belongs to somebody else
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07.25.04 (4 years ago)
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Alien Hand Syndrome
Alien Hand Syndrome has been most widely documented in cases where sufferers of epilepsy and seizures have had the two hemispheres of their brains separated to relieve the problems they suffer.
As a by-product of such a separation, many patients find that, quite literally, their left hand does not know what their right hand is doing.
Whilst a patient has complete control over one hand; they report, and it can be shown, that they have no control over the action of their other hand.
In at least one case it has been reported that a patient was happily driving home when the Alien Hand seized the wheel of the vehicle nearly causing an accident whilst in other cases, simply trying to write one's own name is thwarted by the other hand pushing the controlled hand away from the paper being written upon.
Despite various theories around a single consciousness interfering with itself on a subconscious level; it has been fairly widely accepted that the behaviour exhibited can be demonstrated to show that there is a separate personality that exists within each hemispshere of the brain that has seized control over each hand.
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07.25.04 (4 years ago)
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one of my friend told me it is due to basal ganglia degeneration !
is it true ?
no referance found ?
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07.25.04 (4 years ago)
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yups, it can be a symptom of corticobasal degeneration
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07.25.04 (4 years ago)
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Wang XP. Corticobasal degeneration. Chin J Pract Inter Med 2000;20:755-7
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06.02.08 (4 months ago)
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thanks for information...
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06.06.08 (4 months ago)
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Thank you NADU
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09.04.08 (1 month ago)
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ver...y interesting Q. 
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