The most clear clinical demonstration of this situation is alien hand syndrome.

There is no cure for the alien hand syndrome.

Alien hand syndrome sounds like something from a B-grade horror movie, but it's a real condition.

Alien hand syndrome is due to damage in the medial motor frontal region of the brain.

Alien hand syndrome is a rare disorder where one hand functions involuntarily.

In alien hand syndrome, the afflicted individual's limb will produce meaningful behaviors without the intention of the subject.

Another common complication is alien hand syndrome, in which the afflicted person's hand appears to take on a mind of its own.

Dr. Strangelove apparently suffers from diagnostic apraxia, or alien hand syndrome.

Anarchic hand syndrome and alien hand syndrome are two similar but separate disorders.

In the House episode "Both Sides Now", the patient suffers from alien hand syndrome.

In alien hand syndrome, the neural mechanisms involved in establishing that this congruence has occurred may be impaired.

Alien hand syndrome has been shown to be prevalent in roughly 60% of those people diagnosed with CBD.

In addition, the lesions affecting the parietal and occipital lobes can lead to a phenomenon known as alien hand syndrome.

Alien hand syndrome is a rare neurological disorder in which one hand functions involuntarily, with the victim completely unaware of its action.

Other areas of the brain that are associated with alien hand syndrome are the frontal, occipital and parietal lobes.

There are several distinct subtypes of alien hand syndrome that appear to be associated with specific distributions of associated brain injury.

An episode of "Dark Matters", a documentary show on Discovery Science described the alien hand syndrome and traced its history.

Like most of the movement disorders, alien hand syndrome also presents asymmetrically in those diagnosed with CBD.

Shaking hands with Dr Strangelove (The Alien hand syndrome)

In patients with a corpus callosotomy, alien hand syndrome most often manifests as uncontrolled but purposeful movements of the nondominant hand.

Sometimes electrical stimulation of the brain induces "alien hand syndrome"- the involuntary movement of the body against the will of the "person" allegedly in control29.

Exactly how this may occur is not well-understood but a process of gradual recovery from alien hand syndrome when the damage involves a single hemisphere has been reported.

For example, a person exhibiting an alien hand syndrome (explained later) in one hand, will not correspondingly display the same symptom in the contralateral limb.

A distinct "posterior" form of alien hand syndrome is associated with damage to the parietal lobe and/or occipital lobe of the brain.

Crick bases this suggestion on scans of patients with specific lesions which seemed to interfere with their sense of independent will, such as alien hand syndrome.