Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

The Alien Hand Syndrome

1989; American Medical Association; Volume: 46; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/archneur.1989.00520400116030

1538-3687

Gordon Banks, Priscilla Short, A. Julio Martínez, Richard E. Latchaw, Graham Ratcliff, François Boller,

Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus

Two patients had automatonlike movements of their left hands and arms (alien hand syndrome) following damage to the brain. Autopsy findings in one patient demonstrated gunshot wound damage to the medial frontal white matter bilaterally, as well as the corpus callosum, right basal ganglia, internal capsule, and thalamus. The other patient had a ruptured anterior communicating aneurysm, with subsequent resection of the right frontal gyrus rectus. We postulate that this syndrome is due to the combination of a partial callosectomy and mesial frontal lesions.