Episode 31: Strange Love and Alien Hands

Crow is BACK and ready to unleash all the post-exam frustration in this in-between episode. We're talking possessed hands from outer space and Stanley Kubrick references as she and Fern discuss Alien Hand Syndrome. When hands develop a mind of their own, and when parts of the brain fail to communicate properly, we end up with body parts that start fighting with each other, grabbing things off the shelf, or even attempting to harm the body they're attached to. Strap in to find out more about the causes of this curious neurological disorder, some documented cases, and whether or not there is a cure...

References: 

Case report 1: https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/65/3/366

Case report 2: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.718706/full

Case report 3: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059570/#:~:text=It%20can%20be%20classified%20into,performs%20goal%2Ddirected%20activity%20not

Anatomy and Neurophysiology: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/anarchic-hand

Info about Corpus Colostomy: https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/procedures-and-treatments/corpus-callosotomy/

Personal story of man with AHS: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/09/583633358/invisibilia-the-otherworldly-alien-hand-syndrome-animated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome

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