ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2016
Alien Hand Syndrome.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical Features, Etiology, and 6-Month Prognosis of Isolated Corpus Callosum Infarction.BioMed research international · 2019Trial
- Alien Hand Syndrome Following Pontine Hemorrhage: A Case Report of Rare Mixed Phenomenology.Reports (MDPI) · 2026Article
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- Posterior alien hand syndrome in a patient with parieto-occipital infarction: a presentation mimicking anterior variant features-a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2025Article
- Unraveling the mystery of alien hand syndrome: when your hand has a mind of its own.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2025Review
- Splenial lesions of the corpus callosum: a comprehensive study on etiology, clinical presentation, radiological features, and prognostic insights.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Review
- Late Detection of Corpus Callosum Infarction in a 55-Year-Old: Insights from Alien Hand Syndrome.The American journal of case reports · 2025Article
- Alien Hand Syndrome as the Initial Presentation of Patent Foramen Ovale-Associated Stroke.Clinical medicine insights. Case reports · 2025Article
- Case Report: Reversible alien hand syndrome caused by cerebral infarction.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Apraxia phenotypes and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- When the diagnosis is in the patient's hand and in the neurologist's eye.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Review
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- Progression to corticobasal syndrome: a longitudinal study of patients with nonfluent primary progressive aphasia and primary progressive apraxia of speech.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Alien hand syndrome: Pathophysiology, semiology and differential diagnosis with psychiatric disorders (Review).Biomedical reports · 2024Review
- A case of adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia presenting with alien hand syndrome.eNeurologicalSci · 2023Article
- Dystonic posturing with athetoid movements in stroke without thalamic lesion.BMJ case reports · 2023Article
- Feeling of hand deformation as a monkey's hand: an experiment on a visual body with discomfort and its algebraic analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Case report: Self-restraint in a patient with alien hand syndrome following cerebral infarction involving the anterior cerebral artery territory.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Alien hand syndrome (AHS) is a rare disorder of involuntary limb movement together with a sense of loss of limb ownership. It most commonly affects the hand, but can occur in the leg. The anterior (frontal, callosal) and posterior variants are recognized, with distinguishing clinical features and anatomical lesions. Initial descriptions were attributed to stroke and neurosurgical operations, but neurodegenerative causes are now recognized as most common. Structural and functional imaging and clinical studies have implicated the supplementary motor area, pre-supplementary motor area, and their network connections in the frontal variant of AHS, and the inferior parietal lobule and connections in the posterior variant. Several theories are proposed to explain the pathophysiology. Herein, we review the literature to update advances in the understanding of the classification, pathophysiology, etiology, and treatment of AHS.
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