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• Alien hand syndrome is a rare neurological disorder in which one hand functions involuntarily, with the victim completely unaware of its action. (howstuffworks.com)
• Alien Hand syndrome, also known as Anarchic Hand syndrome and Dr. Strangelove syndrome, is a neurological disorder in which a person's hand seemingly has a mind of its own. (studymode.com)
• Alien hand syndrome Alien hand syndrome is a neurological disorder in which one of the sufferer's hands seems to take on a life of its own. (studymode.com)
• Alien Hand Syndrome This is a proposed neurological disorder that is characterized by the affected person's own hand or hands that seemingly have taken over its own free will or mind of its own. (studymode.com)
• Alien hand syndrome , (AHS) is a rare neurological disorder that causes hand movement without the person being aware of what is happening or having control over the action. (blogspot.com)
• Alien Hand Syndrome is a neurological disorder where an individual has no control over their hand and it seems to act independently from the rest of the self. (wordpress.com)
• Also known as Dr. Strangelove syndrome and "anarchic hand," AIS is a neurological disorder that makes the victim feel like he has lost control of one of his hands. (abovetopsecret.com)
• This set of symptoms is related to Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS), a neurological disorder in which the subject does not acknowledge ownership of a limb when visual cues are lacking. (wikipedia.org)
• At the same time, this area is commonly injured in patients suffering from anarchic hand syndrome ( 10 ), a neurological disorder in which hand movements are performed without conscious will. (sciencemag.org)
• Alien hand syndrome," a neurological disorder in which victims report the involuntary use of their hands, inspired researchers to investigate whether the brain initiates several action plans, setting in motion a competitive process before arriving at a decision. (healthcanal.com)

Foreign Accent S3

• Foreign Accent Syndrome is when someone suddenly changes their accent without warning. (toptenz.net)
• Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a speech disorder that causes sudden changes in speech pattern, intonation and pronunciation so that the victim is perceived to speak with a "foreign" accent. (abovetopsecret.com)
• Foreign accent syndrome is just that. (listsoplenty.com)

Corpus9

• When damage occurs to the corpus callosum-the data link between the brain's two hemispheres-the non-dominant hand can develop what seems to be an independent sense of purpose, groping around its environment and manipulating the objects it finds. (damninteresting.com)
• One particularly unorthodox subtype of Alien Hand Syndrome can arise due to lesions on the corpus callosum, producing a phenomenon called intermanual conflict. (damninteresting.com)
• At times, particularly in patients who have sustained damage to the corpus callosum that connects the two cerebral hemispheres (see also split-brain), the hands appear to be acting in opposition to each other. (wikipedia.org)
• Neuroimaging and pathological research shows that the frontal lobe (in the frontal variant) and corpus callosum (in the callosal variant) are the most common anatomical lesions responsible for the alien hand syndrome. (wikipedia.org)
• The alien hand sign, or "main etrangere", was first described by Brion and Jedynak 1 as a combination of involuntary, seemingly purposeful, hand movements with denial of its ownership in three patients with corpus callosal tumours. (bmj.com)
• The term "diagonistic dyspraxia" was coined earlier by Akelaitis 2 in a patient with a corpus callosotomy who developed transient, involuntary antagonistic movements of the non-dominant hand which interfered with attempted voluntary movements of the dominant hand. (bmj.com)
• Subsequent reports of dominant alien hand sign as a presentation of anterior cerebral artery infarction involving both the corpus callosum and dominant medial frontal cortex, 4-11 led to the concept of two different kinds of alien hand, one "frontal" in the dominant hand and the other "callosal" in the non-dominant hand. (bmj.com)
• split-brain syndrome A structure known as the corpus callosum connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain and enables communication between them. (britannica.com)
• Reversible splenial lesion syndrome is a condition which is radiologically characterized by reversible lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum. (biomedcentral.com)

Limb6

• Although patients typically retain sensation in the alien hand, they feel strongly that the rebel limb does not belong to them. (damninteresting.com)
• Sufferers of alien hand will often personify the rogue limb, for example believing it to be "possessed" by some intelligent or alien spirit or an entity that they may name or identify. (studymode.com)
• Alien hand syndrome (AHS) is characterized by involuntary movements of a limb, usually the hand, that seem purposeful or functional. (livescience.com)
• Authors of a meta-analysis of research on AHS published in Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements wrote, "Sometimes the limb is personified: patients have named their alien hands. (livescience.com)
• This case exhibited contradictive movement , left-lateral paresis and disorder of color discrimination, which might be a new subtype of the alien limb syndrome . (bvsalud.org)
• We discuss object affordances, alien limb syndrome, the visual grasp reflex, subliminal priming, and subliminal triggering of attentional orienting. (biomedsearch.com)

Symptoms14

• The specific symptoms and severity of Alien Hand Syndrome depend on which sectors of the brain have been compromised. (damninteresting.com)
• Alien hand syndrome is best documented in cases where a person has had the two hemispheres of their brain surgically separated,[citation needed] a procedure sometimes used to relieve the symptoms of extreme cases of epilepsy and epileptic psychosis, e.g., temporal lobe epilepsy. (wikipedia.org)
• Symptoms range from compulsively grasping and releasing an object to fully self-oppositional movements, like stubbing out a cigarette immediately after the other hand has lit it or unbuttoning a shirt as the other hand buttons. (todayifoundout.com)
• The condition is also known as anarchic hand Symptoms: they could still sense that their hand is of normal and part of their body, but just provides a distinct behavior on its own without the control of its owner. (studymode.com)
• According to the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center, the symptoms of Ambras syndrome, as the condition is also called, include excessive hair growth all over the body, except on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. (livescience.com)
• These episodes of lengthy sleep may be proceeded by flu-like symptoms and, when they're awake, people with this syndrome may exhibit various odd behaviors, including eating excessively, hallucinating or acting childishly. (livescience.com)
• Alien hand syndrome is best documented in cases where a person has had the two hemispheres of their brain surgically separated, a pr ocedure sometimes used to relieve the symptoms of extreme cases of epilepsy. (blogspot.com)
• Strange Syndromes: Have You Been Experiencing Symptoms? (mysteriousuniverse.org)
• Within seven and nine months from symptom onset, respectively, the clinical symptoms of frontal alien hand had resolved completely in both cases. (semanticscholar.org)
• Alien hand syndrome is caused by trauma to the brain -- such as a stroke, aneurysm or head injury -- and the symptoms can be treated, although the condition itself has no cure. (abovetopsecret.com)
• In patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: An analysis of a new addition to a neurotoxic metabolite methylphenyl-pyridium (mpp) by mao-b. 76 symptoms 0.1 69 0.1 pre-test likelihood post-test probability ratio probability the dotted line shows how oversimpli cation. (cadasb.org)
• Group discussion is used to teach the post-stroke symptoms of hemiparesis (primarily in the lower extremity), dysphasia, and alien hand syndrome. (buffalo.edu)
• Symptoms include uncontrolled rhythmic muscle contractions, decreased movement, muscle rigidity , impaired balance, alien hand syndrome or the inability to sense and control the movements of the hand, apraxia or the inability to control the movement of the limbs, and aphasia or the loss of speech. (wisegeek.com)
• This cluster of symptoms is sometimes referred to as corticobasal syndrome (CBS) or corticobasal degeneration syndrome (CBDS), since definitive diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration is not possible while the patient is alive. (wisegeek.com)

Brain30

• In this article, we'll explain exactly what alien hand syndrome is, check out the brain function behind it and examine how pop culture seems to be hooked on this unusual condition. (howstuffworks.com)
• On occasion, a hand can also become alienated due to head trauma, stroke, aneurysm, or tumor, or due to certain degenerative brain conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. (damninteresting.com)
• citation needed] Other areas of the brain that are associated with alien hand syndrome are the frontal, occipital, and parietal lobes. (wikipedia.org)
• The brain sends commands to the hand but the rest of the mind is unaware of those commands and often unaware of the actions themselves or the motivations that drive the actions. (hypnosis101.com)
• Alien hand syndrome occurs sometimes when folks have had the two hemispheres of their brain surgically separated or sometimes in people who've had strokes, brain lesions or infections. (hypnosis101.com)
• People might assume that these alien hand, out of consciousness impulses occur because of some damage to the brain. (hypnosis101.com)
• The syndrome itself is one of a number of similar conditions, each thought to be the product of some type of brain trauma or injury. (todayifoundout.com)
• This syndrome is best documented when a person has the two hemispheres or their brain surgically separated, a routine surgery for those with epilepsy. (studymode.com)
• In order to understand what we know about alien hand syndrome, we should take a brief look at the brain and how it works. (howstuffworks.com)
• When a person suffers from epilepsy, Alzheimer's, stroke, or any other brain surgeries which lead to the separation of both the hemispheres of the brain, they're at risk for Alien Hand Syndrome or AHS. (amazingscribbles.com)
• In his classic papers reviewing the wide variety of disconnection syndromes associated with focal brain pathology, Norman Geschwind commented that Kurt Goldstein "was perhaps the first to stress the non-unity of the personality in patients with callosal section, and its possible psychiatric effects. (blogspot.com)
• People typically get this syndrome after suffering from a brain injury or a stroke. (toptenz.net)
• This is Alien Hand Syndrome , and it can be caused by damage to the brain and nervous system after a seizure, brain tumor, or stroke, or surgery. (toptenz.net)
• With sixty recorded cases around the world - most of which are attributed to brain damage - this syndrome results in the sufferer speaking with an accent (go figure). (mysteriousuniverse.org)
• This syndrome is found to be linked with damage to both the right hemisphere and two frontal lobes of the brain. (mysteriousuniverse.org)
• Walking corpse syndrome is typically the result of brain damage or mental illness. (abovetopsecret.com)
• [1] The lesions affecting the parietal and occipital lobes of the brain can lead to a phenomenon known as alien hand syndrome . (wikipedia.org)
• To explore the brain correlates of these different aspects of agency, we recorded with dual EEG and video set-ups 22 subjects interacting via spontaneous versus induced imitation (II) of hand movements. (frontiersin.org)
• To summarize, although the literature includes several descriptions of crossed/atypical functional brain lateralization, reports on left-handed subjects are limited or unexpressed since in many series handedness is not reported. (hindawi.com)
• After surgery to treat her epilepsy severed the connection between the two halves of her brain, Karen's left hand took on a mind of its own, acting against her will to undress or even to slap her. (kqed.org)
• Dysfunction or absence of this structure can result in a condition known as split-brain syndrome, in which each hemisphere of the brain functions independently. (britannica.com)
• Demonstrate understanding of how ischemic damage to the brain can affect speech, sensory and motor control of body movements, and on rare occasions lead to alien hand syndrome. (buffalo.edu)
• For the moment I'll just add the brief comment that interestingly consciousness seems to be somehow linked to the dominant language hemisphere in that split brain patients have no awareness of directions given to their right hemisphere (in right handed patients), yet can act on these directions. (julianjaynes.org)
• A 24-year-old Sri Lankan man who presented with fever and confusion was eventually diagnosed to have reversible splenial lesion syndrome based on brain imaging. (biomedcentral.com)
• Sometimes, rival networks inside the brain cannot be resolved, such as in the case of alien hand syndrome, which sometimes occurs after a split brain surgery is used to treat epilepsy. (films.com)
• See a patient whose right brain has taken control of her left hand, affecting her motor skills. (films.com)
• But the left hand is more likely to win if a certain region of the brain receives magnetic stimulation, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. (healthcanal.com)
• When the left posterior parietal cortex of the brain received magnetic stimulation, right-handed volunteers were more likely to use their left hand to perform simple one-handed tasks, UC Berkeley research shows. (healthcanal.com)
• UC Berkeley researchers applied transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to the posterior parietal cortex region of the brain in 33 right-handed volunteers and found that stimulating the left side spurred an increase in their use of the left hand. (healthcanal.com)
• Moreover, it shows that TMS can manipulate the brain to change plans for which hand to use, paving the way for clinical advances in the rehabilitation of victims of stroke and other brain injuries. (healthcanal.com)

Disorder8

• Alien hand syndrome is a rare disorder where one hand functions involuntarily. (howstuffworks.com)
• Described by scientists as a "complex, goal-directed activity in one hand that is not voluntarily initiated," sufferers from the disorder are aware of the movement, and they feel what the hand feels, but often feel as if they have no control over it. (todayifoundout.com)
• Alien Hand Syndrome sounds like a funny name for a disorder in humans but it is the most intriguing one! (amazingscribbles.com)
• Usually, it is the left hand that is affected by this disorder as the majority of the people are right handed. (amazingscribbles.com)
• This case illustrates not only the clinical-radiographic correlation between alien hand syndrome and contralateral thalamic lesion, but also involvement of deep gray structure in Parry-Romberg syndrome causing a rare movement disorder. (elsevier.com)
• A similar disorder is called anarchic hand syndrome . (wordpress.com)
• Alien hand syndrome: contradictive movement and disorder of color discrimination. (bvsalud.org)
• Persistent genital arousal disorder also known as persistent sexual arousal syndrome or PSAS, results in a spontaneous and persistent genital arousal, with or without orgasm or genital engorgement, unrelated to any feelings of sexual desire. (abovetopsecret.com)

Cerebral3

• A right-handed woman developed left homonymous hemianopia and left hemianesthesia from infarction due to right posterior cerebral artery occlusion. (neurology.org)
• Recovery and outcome of frontal alien hand syndrome after anterior cerebral artery stroke. (semanticscholar.org)
• To shade some more light onto this issue, clinical presentation, course of rehabilitation and outcome of two illustrative cases of frontal alien hand syndrome following anterior cerebral artery stroke are presented. (semanticscholar.org)

Anarchic hand syndrome1

• Anarchic hand syndrome and alien hand syndrome are two similar but separate disorders. (blogspot.com)

Hypertrichosis1

• Hypertrichosis, or werewolf syndrome, is a medical condition that causes the excessive growth of body hair -- typically on the upper body, including the face. (abovetopsecret.com)

Strangelove4

• Alien hand syndrome (AHS) or Dr. Strangelove syndrome is a category of conditions in which a person experiences their limbs acting seemingly on their own, without conscious control over the actions. (wikipedia.org)
• Alien hand syndrome is a condition where a person's hand seems to take on a mind of its own (a la Dr. Strangelove). (hypnosis101.com)
• Some individuals report having to restrain their own hand with their other (reminiscent of Dr Strangelove ). (wordpress.com)
• Also known as Dr Strangelove Syndrome, this is an extremely weird medical condition that is also very rare. (thisblogrules.com)

Frontal alien hand syn3

• Among these, frontal alien hand syndrome is rare and easily overlooked in the acute clinical setting, but significantly impacts on functional activities of daily life. (semanticscholar.org)
• We conclude that frontal alien hand syndrome has a favourable long-term outcome. (semanticscholar.org)
• We present a 64-year-old man with hemichoreoballism and frontal alien hand syndrome on his right hand. (koreamed.org)

Alzheimer's1

• This structural, lesion based, disconnectionist approach has been challenged recently by a strong association with corticobasal ganglionic degeneration 12 and two case reports of pathologically established Alzheimer's disease presenting with isolated alien hand. (bmj.com)

Stroke3

• In this paper, Goldstein described a right-handed woman who had suffered a stroke affecting her left side from which she had partially recovered by the time she was seen. (blogspot.com)
• Patients with useless limbs syndrome can progress to a clenched, painful fist, while persons with certain progressive diseases, such as progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal ganglionic degeneration, and stroke, may be at high risk of falling, and patients with dementias may develop secondary nutritional deficiencies. (medscape.com)
• She and her neurologist said they believe she suffered a small MRI-negative stroke and alien hand syndrome, preventing her from having control over one of her hands. (seattletimes.com)

Werewolf Syndrome1

• People who have the rare skin disease called Werewolf syndrome have some features that may resemble those of the mythical creatures for which the condition is named. (livescience.com)

Sufferers7

• Some sufferers only experience a few isolated episodes, but in most cases the alien arm is active whenever its owner is conscious. (damninteresting.com)
• In a report published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Dr Ramón Leiguarda and his colleagues recorded several first-hand accounts from AHS sufferers. (damninteresting.com)
• Alien hand syndrome is one of these puzzles- with its sufferers having one of their hands, usually the non-dominant one, acting as if it has a mind of its own. (todayifoundout.com)
• Sufferers have reported a range of experiences from putting a cigarette in the mouth ready to light with one hand for then the 'alien hand' to remove it immediately Other experiences have been more menacing with the hand punching the self and in one case a woman woke up being choked by her own but alien hand. (wordpress.com)
• Note: Sufferers of the syndrome are very rarely found at Victoria's Secret parties. (mysteriousuniverse.org)
• Sufferers of walking corpse syndrome, also known as the Cotard delusion, believe that they are dead, decaying or have lost body parts or internal organs. (abovetopsecret.com)
• In extreme cases, sufferers have been reported to engage in violent wrestling with their own hand, with the appendages even trying to strangle the patient while sleeping. (abovetopsecret.com)

Alice in Wonde1

• Episodes of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome come and go within a matter of minutes, and most people experience them at home. (toptenz.net)

Hemisphere4

• Due to the surgery, the communication between both hemispheres is damaged which leads to a lot of miscommunication due to which the signal for movement just reaches from one-half of the hemisphere to the hand, the rest of the body is unaware of this command. (amazingscribbles.com)
• so I have to wonder something, if the dominant hemisphere is open to experience alien hand syndrome due to what is going on in the other hemisphere, does the other hemisphere function as a person and experience 'alien entire body' syndrome? (physicsforums.com)
• Hécaen and Albert [ 7 ] suggested that the term "crossed aphasia" should be used only to refer to aphasia following right hemisphere pathology in a right-handed person, and this is how the term is currently used [ 8 ]. (hindawi.com)
• Here, we report the case of a left-handed individual with a left hemisphere lesion who presented a typical "right hemisphere syndrome" (i.e., contralateral neglect, visuospatial defects, constructional difficulties, etc. (hindawi.com)

Slumber1

• Hinter dem etwas befremdlichen Pseudonym Alien Hand Syndrome (benannt nach einer neurologischen Störung ) verbirgt sich der in Wien lebende oberösterreichische Multinstrumentalist Clemens Engert, der mit „Slumber" sein zweites Album vorlegt. (nicorola.de)

Dissociate themselves from the hand2

• They will often dissociate themselves from the hand by personifying it-sometimes assigning it a name-and attribute its inexplicable movements to ghosts or gods. (damninteresting.com)
• In alien hand syndrome the individual tends to display more sensory deficits as they dissociate themselves from the hand and its actions, frequently remarking on the hand's behaviour as if it does not belong to them. (blogspot.com)

Restrain3

• Others simply use their obedient hand to restrain the strangeness. (damninteresting.com)
• The afflicted person may sometimes reach for objects and manipulate them without wanting to do so, even to the point of having to use the controllable hand to restrain the alien hand. (wikipedia.org)
• The host body also tries to restrain the alien hand during times of movement, by holding it tightly, thus restraining it. (amazingscribbles.com)

Chronic2

• PML occurs almost exclusively in patients with severe immune deficiency , most commonly among patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), but people on chronic immunosuppressive medications including chemotherapy are also at increased risk of PML, such as patients with transplants, Hodgkin's lymphoma , multiple sclerosis , psoriasis , and other autoimmune diseases. (wikipedia.org)
• Ablative procedures ablative techniques for diagnosis in the emergency department and requiring suffering from the gut, worsening the iron staining of the ovary and the need for systemic use: iron-dextran: 16 ml of sski and it has only had four attacks, and smells, e.G. Compare chronic fatigue syndrome. (cadasb.org)

Headache1

• Secondary Headache: posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. (tuftsmedicalcenter.org)

Focal1

• A pediatric patient with diagnosis of Parry-Romberg syndrome, or progressive hemifacial atrophy, presented with new-onset unilateral alien hand syndrome, which was attributed to focal progressive atrophy and gliosis in the contralateral thalamus observed on serial neuroimaging. (elsevier.com)

Movements of the left2

• The patient complained of a feeling of "strangeness" in relationship to the goal-directed movements of the left hand and insisted that "someone else" was moving the left hand, and that she was not moving it herself. (blogspot.com)
• Here we found that this bilateral network was activated by VM with either hand (right or left), but with left prefrontal areas being more strongly implicated than right prefrontal areas and specifically associated with voluntary relative to alien movements of the left hand. (physicsforums.com)

Progressive Supra4

• The purpose of this study was to determine how regional involvement of the thalamus differs among Parkinson disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, and corticobasal syndrome. (ajnr.org)
• Nine patients with Parkinson disease, 5 with progressive supranuclear palsy, and 6 with corticobasal syndrome underwent 3T MR imaging along with 12 matched, asymptomatic volunteers by using a protocol that included volumetric T1 and diffusion tensor imaging. (ajnr.org)
• Thalamic volume was smaller in the progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal syndrome groups compared with the Parkinson disease and control groups. (ajnr.org)
• Reduced size and increased ADC disproportionately involve the lateral thalamus in progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal syndrome, consistent with selective neurodegeneration and atrophy in this region. (ajnr.org)

Patients12

• Patients retain all sense of feeling in the alien hand, but they often describe feelings of disassociation. (howstuffworks.com)
• In order to deal with the alien hand, some patients engage in personification of the affected hand. (wikipedia.org)
• Almost always occurring on the non-dominant side (i.e., if you're right handed, your alien hand would be your left), many patients with this condition get to the point where they refer to the hand as if it is another person, even giving it a different name. (todayifoundout.com)
• Anarchic hand is usually diagnosed as opposed to alien hand syndrome because it tends to be more associated with motor impairments as the patients acknowledge the hand as theirs but are frustrated by its unintended actions. (blogspot.com)
• While there is no easy cure for this syndrome, patients can attend speech therapy, if they really want to go back to their original accents. (toptenz.net)
• Patients who to go to physical therapy often walk with a cane, even if they don't really need one, simply to keep their alien hand occupied. (toptenz.net)
• In two patients with pathologically established disease association with a progressive alien hand syndrome was the sole initial manifestation of the disease. (bmj.com)
• We now report two patients with pathologically established Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease who presented with alien hand complaints in the absence of clinically obvious dementia. (bmj.com)
• believed that Lhermitte's experiments led the patients to perform the behaviors that they thought were expected of them as the researchers either placed the objects in the patients hands or enticed them to pick up the objects. (wikipedia.org)
• Apraxia, one of the most important and least understood major behavioral neurology syndromes, robs patients of the ability to use tools. (medscape.com)
• Ryan Hurt, an internist who leads post-covid syndrome research at the Mayo Clinic, said that of the approximately 20,000 patients there who have tested positive for the coronavirus, roughly 10% are considered long-haulers, and 60% to 80% of those are women. (seattletimes.com)
• Members of the left or right fasciculus cuneatus terminates, functioning as a suppressive in an ordered set of alternatives is the preferred technique in patients with low serum levels, and higher level of toxic shock syndrome may develop during treatment with certain heritable traits in the same individual or in terms of events leading to diarrhoea due to resistant e. (bigsurlandtrust.org)

Posterior1

• When the left posterior parietal cortex was stimulated, and the target was located in a spot where they could use either hand, there was a significant increase of the use of the left hand, Oliveira said. (healthcanal.com)

Aphasia1

• Indeed, Bramwell applied this term to two different conditions: (a) right hemiplegia and aphasia in a left-hander and (b) left hemiplegia and aphasia in a right-handed individual. (hindawi.com)

Parietal1

• The mildest form of the syndrome is caused by damage to the brain's parietal and/or occipital lobe, causing a hand to unconsciously avoid contact with objects by "levitating" with its fingers extended. (damninteresting.com)

Lesions1

• A recent study also indicated that circumscribed lesions of the PPC can cause the occurrence of alien movements generated without conscious intention through the recruitment of the precentral executive motor regions ( 8 ). (sciencemag.org)

Intermanual conflict1

• Bogen 3 further defined this entity in the non-dominant hand after surgical anterior callosotomy and used the term intermanual conflict. (bmj.com)

Lesion3

• In this article we report a patient with dengue haemorrhagic fever who presented with reversible splenial lesion syndrome. (biomedcentral.com)
• This case report highlights the occurrence of reversible splenial lesion syndrome as a presenting feature of the expanding list of unusual neurological manifestations of dengue infection. (biomedcentral.com)
• A diagnosis of reversible splenial lesion syndrome (RESLES) was suspected based on the MRI appearance. (biomedcentral.com)

Involuntary1

• This leads to involuntary gasping, choking, shaking the hand. (amazingscribbles.com)

Spontaneous3

• The patient often interpreted spontaneous movements of the left arm as alien in origin. (neurology.org)
• There was frequent spontaneous and stimulus sensitive myoclonus in the left hand and foot. (bmj.com)
• Lazarus Syndrome is the spontaneous start of circulation after unsuccessful attempts at CPR. (listsoplenty.com)

Atrophy5

• Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy and Linear Scleroderma En Coup de Sabre: A Spectrum of the Same Disease? (frontiersin.org)
• Similar clinical and histhopathological features in progressive hemifacial atrophy and linear scleroderma en coup de sabre are well known. (frontiersin.org)
• Tolkachjov and colleagues ( 6 ) named the synonyms of Parry-Romberg syndrome: idiopathic hemifacial atrophy, PHA, and Romberg syndrome. (frontiersin.org)
• The words "progressive hemifacial atrophy," "Parry-Romberg syndrome," "localized scleroderma en coup de sabre," "linear scleroderma en coup de sabre," and "linear morphoea" were used for the search. (frontiersin.org)
• Clinical and histopathological findings in progressive hemifacial atrophy (PHA) and en coup de saber (ECDS) ( 1 ). (frontiersin.org)

Etiology2

• A senile Chinese female patient with alien hand syndrome of vascular etiology is reported. (bvsalud.org)
• In spite of the long history, the Parry-Romberg syndrome has unknown etiology and pathogenesis. (frontiersin.org)

Person's2

• Existent in only 2 to 30 people out of every 1 million, Moebius Syndrome affects the person's ability to follow objects with his or her eyes, and show facial expressions. (amog.com)
• The syndrome often precedes tumors all over the person's body. (amog.com)

Epilepsy1

• Classically, temporal lobe epilepsy is assocated with exalted states, religious visions and alien abduction phenomenum. (23nlpeople.com)

Tried to strangle1

• Extreme cases have occurred where the hand has attacked, and even tried to strangle with a cord, the person to which it's attached. (todayifoundout.com)

Apraxia1

• There is no consensus on how to divide and organize the many different syndromes classified as apraxia. (medscape.com)

Left17

• Slowly, your left hand eases up, wraps around your neck and you awake to find your own hand locked in a kung-fu grip on your throat. (howstuffworks.com)
• You pry it loose with your other hand, finger by finger, until it relents and you're left there staring at a hand that suddenly doesn't feel like your own. (howstuffworks.com)
• The fifty-seven year old woman reported that her left hand had a "will of its own," and indeed it seemed to possess its own sinister agenda. (damninteresting.com)
• I was unable to control my right hand and I had to grasp and hold it with my left hand. (damninteresting.com)
• There are a variety of clinical conditions that fall under this category, which most commonly affects the left hand. (wikipedia.org)
• Their left hand turns it off. (hypnosis101.com)
• Right hand on, left hand off. (hypnosis101.com)
• When the left hand grasped an object, she could not voluntarily release it. (blogspot.com)
• Only with significant effort was she able to perform simple movements with the left arm in response to spoken command, but these movements were performed slowly and often incompletely even if these same movements had been involuntarily performed with relative ease before while in the abnormal 'alien' control mode. (blogspot.com)
• Until he said that I had no idea that my left hand was opening up the buttons of my shirt. (wordpress.com)
• So I start rebuttoning with the right hand and, as soon as I stopped, the left hand started unbuttoning them. (wordpress.com)
• She did not deny ownership of her left hand but said it had a purpose unto itself and felt "foreign", particularly when it would wander out of her view. (bmj.com)
• A 74-year-old, left-handed man presented with a rapidly evolving loss of strength in his right leg associated with difficulty in walking. (hindawi.com)
• The left hand had to pick a related image, and one was a shovel, so the left hand pointed to the shovel. (kqed.org)
• Here we demonstrate that anodal tDCS delivered to the hand area of the left primary motor cortex induces a significant reduction in GABA concentration. (jove.com)
• How does one convince an obsessive-compulsive patient to stop religiously washing his hands when the truth of what gets left behind after "normal" washing should be enough to make any sane person cringe? (damninteresting.com)
• You're handicapping the right hand in this competition, and giving the left hand a better chance of winning," said Flavio Oliveira, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher in psychology and neuroscience and lead author of the study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . (healthcanal.com)

Occurrence1

• While under normal circumstances, thought, as intent, and action can be assumed to be deeply mutually entangled, the occurrence of alien hand syndrome can be usefully conceptualized as a phenomenon reflecting a functional "disentanglement" between thought and action. (wikipedia.org)