Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements 2014
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Pathophysiology and Treatment of Alien Hand Syndrome

Harini Sarva,
Andres Lawrence Deik,
William Lawrence Severt
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“…7 Distress arises from the perception of onlookers, features of which were elicited in our patient. 8 Hence, our patient had features of both anterior and posterior types of alien limb syndrome, which could be explained by diffuse involvement of the corpus callosum in the inciting event. 9 The corpus callosum is the major commissural pathway connecting the cerebral hemispheres and it receives its blood supply from the pericallosal artery (branch of anterior cerebral artery) and posterior pericallosal artery (branch of the posterior cerebral artery).…”
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“…7 Distress arises from the perception of onlookers, features of which were elicited in our patient. 8 Hence, our patient had features of both anterior and posterior types of alien limb syndrome, which could be explained by diffuse involvement of the corpus callosum in the inciting event. 9 The corpus callosum is the major commissural pathway connecting the cerebral hemispheres and it receives its blood supply from the pericallosal artery (branch of anterior cerebral artery) and posterior pericallosal artery (branch of the posterior cerebral artery).…”
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confidence: 71%
“…Patients with callosal type alien hand syndrome can also exhibit autocriticism (frustration caused by intermanual conflict). 8 On the other hand, visuospatial deficits elicited in history and the impaired cortical sensations over her left hand on examination were suggestive of a posterior alien limb phenomenon, pertaining to lesions of contralateral occipito-parietal cortex, splenium of corpus callosum, or thalamus. 7 Distress arises from the perception of onlookers, features of which were elicited in our patient.…”
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“…Parietal lobe lesions tend to produce a feeling that the affected hand/arm is alien. Loss of somatosensory inputs to the primary motor area may produce the bizarre posturing of the arm, such as arm levitation 9…”
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