Alien hand syndrome: A review of the literature;Síndrome de la mano ajena: Revisión de la bibliografía

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 534-539

  Hidalgo Borrajo, R ^a   Belaunzaran Mendizabal J ^a   Hernaez Goni P ^a   Tirapu Ustárroz, Javier ^a   Luna Lario, P ^a  

^a Universidad Pública de Navarra   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alien hand syndrome; Brain diseases; Brain ischemia complications; Corpus callosum; Dominance cerebral; Frontal lobe physiopatology; Movement disorders

Indexed keywords

ALIEN HAND SYNDROME; ANXIETY; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FATIGUE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HAND; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SYNDROME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SYNDROME;

EID: 65949086611     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.4810.2008277     Document Type: Review

References (58)

1. Devinsky O, Laff R. Callosal lesions and behavior: history and modern concepts. Epilepsy Behav 2003; 4: 607-617 (Pubitemid 38035683)
2. Giummarra JM, Gibson SJ, Georgiou-Karistianis N, Bradsha JL. Mechanisms underlying embodiment, disembodiment and loss of embodiment. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2008; 32: 143-160 (Pubitemid 350167476)
3. Wilson SAK. A study of apraxia. Brain 1908; 31: 164.
4. Head H. Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1926.
5. Marie P, Chatelin C. Les troubles visuels dus aux lésions des voies optiques intracérébrales et de la sphère visuelle corticale dans les blessures du crane par coup de feu. Rev Neurol (Paris) 1915; 22: 882-925.
6. Von Monakow C. Die Lokalisation im Grosshirm. The mechanism of vision, XVIII. Effects of destroying the visual associative areas of the monkey. Genet Psychol Monogr 1914; 37: 107-166
7. Goldstein K. Die transkortikalen Aphasien. Jena: Fischer.
8. Goldstein K. Language and language disturbances: aphasic symptom complexes and their significance for medicine and theory of language. New York: Grune & Stratton; 1948.
9. Akelitis AJ. Studies on the corpus callosum. IV. Diagnostic dyspraxia in epileptics following partial and complete section of the corpus callosum. Am J Psychiatry 1945; 101: 594-599
10. Wilson DH, Reeves A, Gazzaniga M, Culver C. Cerebral commissurotomy for control of intractable seizures. Neurology 1977; 27: 708-715 (Pubitemid 8165808)
11. Zaidel DW. A view of the world from a split-brain perspective. In Critchley EMR, ed. The neurological boundaries of reality. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson; 1995. p. 161-174
12. Dimond SJ. Depletion of attentional capacity after total commissurotomy in man. Brain 1976; 99: 347-356
13. Ellenberg L, Sperry RW. Capacity for holding sustained attention following commissurotomy. Cortex 1979; 15: 421-438 (Pubitemid 10145861)
14. Trevarthen C. Integrative functions of the cerebral commissures. In Boller F, Grafman J, eds. Handbook of neuropsychology, vol.4. New York: Elsevier; 1990. p. 49-83.
15. Hoppe KD, Bogen JE. Alexithymia in twelve commissurotimized patients. Psychother Psychosom 1977; 28: 148-155
16. Jessimer M, Markham R. Alexithymia: a right hemisphere dysfunction specific to recognition of certain facial expressions? Brain Cogn 1997; 34: 246-258
17. Gross-Tsur V, Shalev RS, Manor O, Amir N. Developmental right-hemisphere syndrome: clinical spectrum of the nonverbal learning disability. J Learn Disabil 1995; 28: 80-86
18. Gazzaniga MS, Bogen JE, Sperry RW. Laterality effects in some thesis following cerebral commissurotomy in man. Neuropsychologia 1963; 1: 209-230
19. Sperry RW, Gazzaniga MS, Bogen JE. Interhemispheric relationships: the neocortical commissures; syndromes of hemisphere disconnection. In Vinken PJ, Bruyn GW, eds. Handbook of clinical neurology. New York: John Wiley; 1969. p. 273-290
20. Baynes K, Tramo MJ, Reeves AG, Gazzaniga MS. Isolation of a right hemisphere cognitive system in a patient with anarchic (alien) hand sign. Neuropsychologia 1997; 35: 1159-1173 (Pubitemid 27342968)
21. Brion S, Jedynak CP. Trouble de transfert inter- hémisphérique à-propos de trois observations de tumeurs du corps calleux: le signe de la main étrangère. Rev Neurol (Paris) 1972; 126: 257-266
22. Goldberg G, Mayer NH, Toglia JU. Medial frontal cortex infarction and the alien hand sign. Arch Neurol 1981; 38: 683-686 (Pubitemid 11029555)
23. Goldberg G, Bloom KK. The alien hand: localization, lateralization, and recovery. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 1990; 69: 228-238 (Pubitemid 20384006)
24. Feinberg TE, Flanagan NG, Schindler RJ, Haber LD. Two alien hand syndromes. Neurology 1992; 42: 19-24.
25. Tanaka Y, Yoshida A, Kawahata N, Hashimoto R, Obayashi T. Diagonistic dyspraxia. Clinical characteristics, responsible lesion and possible underlying mechanism. Brain 1996; 119: 859-873
26. Della Sala S, Marchietti C, Spinnler H. Right-sided anarchic (alien) hand: a longitudinal study. Neuropsychologia 1991; 29: 1113-1127
27. Papagno C, Marsile C. Transient left-sided alien hand with callosal and unilateral frontal-mesial damage: a case study. Neuropsychologia 1995; 33: 1703-1709 (Pubitemid 26005232)
28. Van Wagenen WP, Herren RY. Surgical division of commissural pathways in the corpus callosum. Arch Neurol Psychiatry 1940; 44: 740-759
29. Leiguarda R, Starkstein S, Berthier M. Anterior callosal haemorrhage: partial interhemispheric disconnection syndrome. Brain 1989; 112: 1019-1037 (Pubitemid 19199482)
30. McNabb AW, Carroll WM, Mastaglia FL. Alien hand and loss of bimanual coordination after dominant anterior cerebral artery territory infarction. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1988; 51: 218-222 (Pubitemid 18055129)
31. Joseph R. The right cerebral hemisphere. J Clin Psychol 1988; 44: 630-673
32. Rohde S, Weidauer S, Lanfermann H, Zanella F. Posterior alien hand syndrome: case report. Neuroradiology 2002; 44: 921-923 (Pubitemid 36067892)
33. Bundick T, Spinella M. Subjective experience, involuntary movement, and posterior alien hand syndrome. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2000; 68: 83-85 (Pubitemid 30248665)
34. Pack BC, Steward KJ, Diamond PT, Gale SD. Posterior-variant alien hand syndrome: clinical features and response to rehabilitation. Disabil Rehabil 2002; 24: 817-818 (Pubitemid 35345524)
35. Scepkowski LA, Cronin-Golomb A. The alien hand: cases, categorizations, and anatomical correlates. Behav Cogn Neurosci Rev 2003; 2: 261-277
36. Kritikos A, Breen N, Mattingley JB. Anarchic hand syndrome: bimanual coordination and sensitivity to irrelevant information in unimanual reaches. Cogn Brain Res 2005; 24: 634-647 (Pubitemid 41133297)
37. Biran I, Giovannetti T, Buxbaum L, Chatterjee A. The alien hand syndrome: what makes the alien hand alien? Cognit Neuropsychol 2006; 23: 563-582
38. Giovannetti T, Buxbaum LJ, Biran I, Chatterjee A. Reduced endogenous control in alien hand syndrome: evidence from naturalistic action. Neuropsychologia 2005; 43: 75-88. (Pubitemid 39369748)
39. Ong-Hai BG, Odderson IR. Involuntary masturbation as a manifestation of stroke-related alien hand syndrome. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2000; 79: 395-398 (Pubitemid 30441341)
40. Riddoch MJ, Edwards MG, Humphreys GW, West R, Heafield T. Visual affordances direct action. Neuropsychological evidence from manual interference. Cognit Neuropsychol 1998; 15: 645-683
41. Riddoch MJ, Humphreys GW, Edwards MG. Neuropsychological evidence distinguishing object selection from action (effector) selection. Cognit Neuropsychol 2000; 17: 547-562
42. Braining M, Seiser A, Matz K. The mirror world of motor inhibition: the alien hand syndrome in chronic stroke. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2008; 79: 246-252
43. Lin JH, Kwan SY, Wu D. Mixed alien hand syndrome coexisting with left-sided extinction secondary to a left corpus callosal lesion: a case report. Mov Disord 2007; 15: 248-251 (Pubitemid 46374771)
44. Geschwind DH, Iacoboni M, Mega MS, Zaidel DW, Cloughesy T, Zaidel E. Alien hand syndrome: interhemisferic motor disconnection due to a lesion in the midbody of the corpus callosum. Neurology 1995; 45: 802-808
45. Vincent M, Hadjikhani N. Migraine aura and related phenomena: beyond scotomata and scintillations. Cephalalgia 2007; 27: 1368-1377 (Pubitemid 350150796)
46. Chand P, Grafman J, Dickson D, Ishizawa K, Litvan I. Alzheimer's disease presenting as conticobasal syndrome. Mov Disord 2006; 21: 2018-2022
47. Murray C, Viehman A, Lippa CF. The corpus callosum in Pick's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: gliosis implies possible clinical consequence. Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 2006; 21: 37-43. (Pubitemid 43297252)
48. Tolosa E, Calandrella D, Gallardo M. Caribbean parkinsonism and other atypical parkinsonian disorders. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2004; 10: 563-567 (Pubitemid 38510426)
49. Ferre I, Hernández I, Boada M, Llorente A, Rey MJ, Cardozo A, et al. Primary progressive aphasia as the initial manifestation of corticobasal degeneration and unusual taupathies. Acta Neuropathol 2003; 106: 419-435
50. McGowan DJ, Delanty N, Petito F, Edgar M, Mastrianni J, DeArmond SJ. Isolated myoclonic alien hand as the sole presentation of pathologically established Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a report of two patients. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1997; 63: 404-407 (Pubitemid 27412391)
51. Oberndorfer S, Urbanits S, Lahrmann H, Jarius C, Albrecht G, Grisold W. Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease initially presenting with alien hand syndrome. J Neurol 2002; 249: 631-632 (Pubitemid 34507841)
52. Rabistein AA, Whiterman ML, Sheber RT. Abnormal diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following corneal transplantations. Arch Neurol 2002; 59: 637-639 (Pubitemid 34289970)
53. Colomer-Rubio E, Sánchez-Roy R, Pareja-Martínez A, Perla C, Villarroya T, Cerdá-Nicolás M, et al. Alien hand syndrome in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Neurologia 2001; 16: 223-226
54. Carrazana E, Rey G, Rivas-Vázquez R, Tatum W. 'Ictal' alien hand syndrome. Epilepsy Behav 2001; 2: 61-64
55. Leiguarda R, Starkskein S, Nogués M, Berthier M, Arbelaiz R. Paroxismal alien hand syndrome. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1993; 56: 788-792
56. Feinberg TE, Roane DM, Cohen J. Partial status epilepticus associated with asomatognosia and alien hand- like behaviors. Arch Neurol 1998; 55: 1574-1576 (Pubitemid 28566628)
57. André C, Dominques RC. Transient alien hand syndrome: is this a seizure or a transient ischaemic attack? J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1996; 60: 232-233
58. Biran I, Chatterjee A. Alien hand syndrome. Arch Neurol 2004; 61: 292-294 (Pubitemid 38197567)