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Alien Hand Syndrome Research Paper

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INTRODUCTION
Alien hand syndrome (AHS), Anarchic hand, or Dr. Strangelove syndrome, is both a phenomenon and a neurological disorder, in which a person loses control of his or her hand, which starts to act independently. It describes involuntary complex goal-directed activity of one limb. The term “alien hand” has been used more recently and requires having observable involuntary motor activity along with the feeling that the limb is foreign or that it has a will of its own.
The term, Dr. Strangelove syndrome, originates from the movie Dr. Strangelove. A character Dr. Strangelove an ex-Nazi scientist, suggesting the US proceeded with the effort to recruit top German technical talent at the end of World War II. Dr. Strangelove played by Peter Seller …show more content…

Works Cited
“Alien Hand Syndrome.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Jan. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome#cite_note-goldberg-18.
Chan, Jin-Lieh, and Elliott D. Ross. “Alien Hand Syndrome: Influence of Neglect on the Clinical Presentation of Frontal and Callosal Variants.” Cortex, vol. 33, no. 2, 1997, pp. 287–299., doi:10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70005-4.
“Dr. Strangelove.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Jan. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove#Peter_Sellers's_multiple_roles.
Goldberg, Gary, and Karen K. Bloom. “The Alien Hand Sign.” American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, vol. 69, no. 5, 1990, pp. 228–238., doi:10.1097/00002060-199010000-00002.
Kritikos, A, et al. “Anarchic Hand Syndrome: Bimanual Coordination and Sensitivity to Irrelevant Information in Unimanual Reaches.” Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research., U.S. National Library of Medicine, Aug. 2005, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15921901.
Panikkath, Ragesh, et al. “The Alien Hand Syndrome.” Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center), Baylor Health Care System, July 2014,

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