The Alien Hand and Migraine with Aura: A Case Report

Exploding Head Syndrome Followed by Sleep Paralysis: A Rare Migraine Aura

“…Migraine auras are present in about 20% of migraine attacks with visual the most common by far in about 99% of cases. There are rare visual auras such as Alice in Wonderland syndrome 1 and uniquely described ones such as agraphia, 2 “oscillocusis,” 3 and alien hand syndrome 4 . This is the first report of another unusual aura.…”

Alien hand syndrome and migraine with aura: A case report

“…Reports on the coexistence of AHS with headache are very rare in the literature. Raieli et al defined a case of migraine with aura and frontal variant AHS (14), and Vincent et al defined AHS as an accompanying feature of the migraine aura due to CSD (18). In the former, a visual aura is followed by hypoesthesia and a bilateral AHS with bilateral migraine headache (14,18).…”

“…During this period, the symptoms may be persistent but rarely paroxysmal (9,10). In the literature, episodic AHS has been described along with epileptic seizures (11), transient ischemic attacks (12), multiple sclerosis (13), parietal lobe infarction (9), and migraine with aura (14) (Table 1). Epileptic seizures and cranial demyelinating pathologies were excluded in the presented case with clinical evaluation, EEG, and imaging findings.…”

Authors' Reply: Alien Hand Syndrome During Migraine Or Dissociative Motor Symptoms?

“…Dear Sir We have read the interesting remarks of Dr Stone. We agree about the importance of psychiatric disorders in the differential diagnosis and we have tried to exclude them by accurate psychological examinations (1). We are aware that the psychiatric disorder cannot be excluded by the only negative psychological examination, just as epilepsy cannot be exclude in an absolute manner by the negative ictal EEG recording, but the brief duration of symptoms does not allow further elucidation.…”