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SUBMITTER: Chandra SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5968654 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May-Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Indian journal of psychological medicine 20180501 3
Alien hand is a strangely behaving hand and occurs in disease of medial frontal lobe and also corpus callosum. When it is with frontal lobe disease, it manifests as groping and hooking with either hand, but callosal lesions produce left-hand abnormalities of varying degrees. Occasionally this phenomenon can be transient as an ictal manifestation. Case 1 is a 20-year-old female who was on treatment for panic and anxiety for 4 years and later noticed strange action by the left hand pushing food pl ...[more]