Mysterious 'alien hand syndrome', attacking its very owner

It seems to appear only in horror movies because of the creation of fictional and fictional episodes, but the hand on the human body can harm its own owner without the sufferer being able to resist.

The human body is a perfect artifact of creation. But after a lot of effort and effort of science, humanity has only understood a very small part of the human body. What has not been deciphered is always a factor that motivates us to explore and study further.

Thought only in movies, but in real life, extremely rare Alien Hand Syndrome actually exists.

Quite a few movies have dealt with strange hand syndrome. In the 1935 horror film "Mad Love," deranged surgeon Peter Lorre replaces the hand of a pianist with that of a man who takes a human life with a knife. Since then, the hand began committing horrific murders.

There was the famous movie "Dr. Strangelove" released in 1964, the character played by Peter Sellers always struggled to control his right hand not to perform the Nazi salute.

However, that's just the entertaining part that appears in the movies. In fact, strange hand syndrome is much scarier and more annoying. These anti-masters may suddenly do something, which is not the intention of the owner.

Alien hand syndrome is also known as Dr. Strangelove syndrome. This syndrome is described as a condition in which the person feels that their hands and feet are taken over, losing control when performing actions.

The first time this syndrome was discovered was in 1908. Since then, the world has only recorded 40-50 cases of the disease. Many people believe that this number does not stop there because many cases may be misdiagnosed as mental disorders.

The disease is described honestly and specifically to patient Karen (55 years old, from New Jersey, USA). In 2011, she was hospitalized after more than 20 years of suffering from a strange condition that caused Karen's left arm and sometimes left leg to act as if they were under the control of a brain outside her body.

Karen said she had suffered from epilepsy since she was a 10-year-old. At the age of 27, doctors performed surgery to cure Karen's epilepsy. The surgery was successful, but since then, extremely unusual behaviors have also appeared.

For example, she was repeatedly attacked by her own left hand, slapped or punched in the body. Or when Karen walks into a store and wants to turn right, one of her legs decides the opposite and turns left, causing her to wobble in circles.

"When my left hand unbuttoned my shirt for the first time, I buttoned it back with my right hand. But just as I stopped buttoning them, my left hand continued to undo them," Karen said. "If I light a cigarette and balance it on the mouth of the cigarette butt, my left hand will immediately reach out and extinguish the cigarette. It can take things out of my bag without me even knowing it."

The 55-year-old's life is getting more and more difficult. During Karen's follow-up, doctors determined her left arm was out of her control.

So far, scientists have not fully agreed with a single hypothesis. However, they offer several possibilities for this syndrome, and they are all related to brain damage.

· The first possibility may be damage to the callous body - the nerve strip that bridges the 2 hemispheres of the brain. The scientists discovered this when they noticed that the number of patients with the disease suddenly increased dramatically in the decade after 1940, when medicine was still treating epilepsy by removing the bottle body.

· The second possibility is that the patient may have damage to the frontal lobe, which plays a very important role in controlling rational actions.

· The last possibility is sequelae after a stroke, trauma, a tumor in the brain, or neurodegeneration leading to an aneurysm in the brain. Although these lesions have different symptoms and causes, they are all capable of leading to "alien hand" syndrome if they affect one of 3 regions: the frontal cortex, callus or parietal lobe.

There are quite a few syndromes similar to strange hands. They are considered the product of some damage to the brain. The most common, or at least the most well-documented, cases are neurological patients with strange hands. They voluntarily underwent several surgeries aimed at separating the right and left hemispheres of the brain in hopes of controlling the activity of their hands.

However, specific drugs for this disease are not available so far. The solution is to "create jobs" for the strange arm, like giving it a ba-toong. Thus, when "busy" with holding a three-toong, the "dangerous" arm can be less aggressive.

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