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Transient left-sided alien hand with callosal and unilateral fronto-mesial damage: a case study
Neuropsychologia
|December 1, 1995
Summary
A patient experienced transient alien hand syndrome after an anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture. Brain imaging revealed frontal lobe hypodensity and corpus callosum lesions, prompting discussion on the alien hand syndrome
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Neurology
- Neuroanatomy
Background:
- Alien hand syndrome is a rare neurological disorder.
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage can lead to various neurological deficits.
- Anterior communicating artery aneurysms are a common cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage.