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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 192-203Publisher
CANADIAN J NEUROL SCI INC
DOI: 10.1017/S0317167100000834
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This is a comprehensive literature review of the motor abnormalities that have come to be included under the designation of Alien Hand Phenomena (AHP). Some of the disorders are dyspractic in nature - intermanual conflict, mirror movements, interference etc., while others - groping, grasping with inability to release, utilization etc, are frontal lobe reflexes. AHP are mainly associated with two pathological processes: if Infarction or hemorrhage in the territory of the anterior cerebral arteries; and 2) Corticobasal degeneration. included in the review is a description of AHP in six personal cases of corticobasal degeneration. The summary includes a short discussion of the possible anatomy of 'free will' based on AHP.
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