Compulsive grasping hand syndrome: A variant of anarchic hand
Articles > Article · 2001
Authors: Dursun Emre KUMRAL
Neurology, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, WoS, 2001, vol 57, pp 2143-2143
Summary
The anarchic hand (or alien hand) is characterized by the occurrence of complex movements of an upper limb that are unintended but well-executed and goal-directed.1 There are reports describing patients with a wide variety of dissociative spontaneous and involuntary movements between the right and left hands following a lesion in the mesio-frontal cortex or anterior corpus callosum.2-5⇓⇓⇓ I report a patient with compulsive movements of the left arm and hand in the form of grasping of the opposite, right hand whenever the latter was intentionally moved. It could be considered among the other variant of anarchic hand syndromes due to calloso-frontal disconnection. A 38-year-old right-handed woman without vascular risk factors experienced sudden loss of consciousness. She remained somnolent and disoriented for 1 month with left side weakness. Cerebral CT showed intraventricular, callosal hemorrhage extending to mesio-frontal area. …