The strange disorder where your hand has a mind of its own
THE DAY WAS progressing normally enough for Pam Johnson (not her real name, in the interest of privacy), but when the 77-year-old sat down to watch television, the monotony turned disturbing. Out of the corner of her eye, she witnessed her left hand creep off its resting position on the armchair and slowly arc across her field of vision. It then began to stroke her face and hair. Now, none of this would be out of the ordinary... had she actually been controlling the appendage. But the hand was doing it all by itself!
Frightened, she called for her husband, and the pair zoomed off to the hospital. By the time they arrived, the hand was back under Pam's control. The 30-minute ordeal seemed like an apparition, but she didn't imagine it. Brain scans confirmed that something was amiss.
The story of Pam's temporarily wayward hand is not at all foreign to neurologists.
"ALIEN HAND SYNDROME is a phenomenon in which one hand is not under control of the mind. The person loses control of the hand, and it acts as if it has a mind of its own,"scientists recently described in the Proceedings of Baylor University Medical Center.
I find my hand doing the same thing.All of a sudden I'm watching porno and my hand seductively rubs my belly and gets in my shorts and rubs me in myriad pleasurable ways.
It's OK at home but it's kinda embarrassing at the Walmart.
Out of my mind sounds familiar for some reason.
I wonder if the old lady will buy it.
H/T www.realclearscience.com I think.
THE DAY WAS progressing normally enough for Pam Johnson (not her real name, in the interest of privacy), but when the 77-year-old sat down to watch television, the monotony turned disturbing. Out of the corner of her eye, she witnessed her left hand creep off its resting position on the armchair and slowly arc across her field of vision. It then began to stroke her face and hair. Now, none of this would be out of the ordinary... had she actually been controlling the appendage. But the hand was doing it all by itself!
Frightened, she called for her husband, and the pair zoomed off to the hospital. By the time they arrived, the hand was back under Pam's control. The 30-minute ordeal seemed like an apparition, but she didn't imagine it. Brain scans confirmed that something was amiss.
The story of Pam's temporarily wayward hand is not at all foreign to neurologists.
"ALIEN HAND SYNDROME is a phenomenon in which one hand is not under control of the mind. The person loses control of the hand, and it acts as if it has a mind of its own,"scientists recently described in the Proceedings of Baylor University Medical Center.
I find my hand doing the same thing.All of a sudden I'm watching porno and my hand seductively rubs my belly and gets in my shorts and rubs me in myriad pleasurable ways.
It's OK at home but it's kinda embarrassing at the Walmart.
Out of my mind sounds familiar for some reason.
I wonder if the old lady will buy it.
H/T www.realclearscience.com I think.