Widen your knowledge about rare neurological disorder: “Alien hand syndrome”
Alien hand syndrome (AHS) is an unusual form of neurological ailment. Alien hand syndrome is a disorder of motor control in which there is involuntary but purposeful hand movements that may be associated with agnosia, weakness, sensory impairment, or weakness. Main causes of developing this rare neurological disorder are injury to brain, head trauma, anterior cerebral artery strokes, midline tumours, side effect of some brain surgery and neurodegenerative diseases. Some strange causes include spontaneous pneumocephalus, migraine aura, seizure and Parry–Romberg Syndrome, a presumed autoimmune disorder with progressive facial hemiatrophy. This disorder is linked with frontal, occipital and parietal lobes of brain. Most prominent symptom of Alien hand syndrome is lack of hand control though affected hand retains a good strength but it freely moves without cognitive control. Patients are unable to feel control over hands movements. It has been observed that patients of...