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The Curious Case of Alien Hand Syndrome (2015x86)

: 23, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: Why Toilet Paper is White http://bit.ly/1SE87uL Why Black Friday is Called Black Friday http://bit.ly/1Ikvrfm In this video: Although modern medicine has made tremendous advances in many areas, even mapping the human genome, there remain aspects of human health that continue to elude our full understanding. Alien hand syndrome is one of these puzzles- with its sufferers having one of their hands, usually the non-dominant one, acting as if it has a mind of its own. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/05/the-curious-case-of-alien-hand-syndrome/ Source/Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome http://www.jsmf.org/meetings/2008/may/Mark%20VW%202008%20Alien%20hand%20syndrome.pdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12225163 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326051/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/obsession.shtml http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15997612 http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/68/1/83.full http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/68/1/7.full http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/632856.stm http://www.ampulove.net/information/dev-wan-bondy01.htm Image Credit (Thank you) http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-m/mad_love_poster_04.jpg http://www.tracieching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TChing-DrStrangelove1.png http://addictmedicine.com/images/DSM_IV_2.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Royal_Infirmary,_Falkirk_-_geograph.org.uk_-_987139.jpg https://medium.com/@readmatter/why-would-somebody-want-to-remove-a-healthy-limb-ffe4494b4f21