Alien Hand Syndrome

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Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:57 pm
BenFranks says... · Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:57 pm
BBC News wrote:Imagine being attacked by one of your own hands, which repeatedly tries to slap and punch you. Or you go into a shop and when you try to turn right, one of your legs decides it wants to go left, leaving you walking round in circles.

Last summer I met 55-year-old Karen Byrne in New Jersey, who suffers from Alien Hand Syndrome.

Her left hand, and occasionally her left leg, behaves as if it was under the control of an alien intelligence.



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I found this to be, not only an interesting subject, but also an interesting way of writing the report. I would've imagined some of the names given to this type of epilepsy were mildly controversial in today's "politically correct" society.

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