Monday 21 July 2014

Alien hand syndrome

Imagine yourself relaxing on a chair on a pleasant Sunday morning, when suddenly one of your hand rises and tries to kill you by tightly gripping your throat , trying to strangle you. You will lose your fingers with other hand and escape from this unwilling suicide. Although, it seems like a screen shot of 19th century average horror movie but if you are patient of this weird syndrome then all of this can happen to you. Main cause of this abnormal neurological disease is dissociation between two parts of brain due to injury of their junction i.e "Corpus callosum ". As a result, involuntary movements of limbs starts without knowing. Recently, no treatment has been found, it can be controlled only by trying to keep hands busy by handling different objects.
                 

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