The BBC reported on a woman in New Jersey who suffers from a rare condition known as Alien Hand Syndrome, one in which a person’s hand continuously tries to attack the person who owns it..
In the case of Karen Byrne, her hand does what it wants to do on its own without regard to what she wants it to do.. An operation was even conducted to try to alleviate her problems of her hand hitting and slapping her and having a mind of its own. The BBC reported:
“Karen was unlucky. After the operation, the right side of her brain refused to be dominated by the left.
She has suffered from Alien Hand Syndrome for 18 years, but fortunately for Karen her doctors have now found a medication that seems to have brought the right side of her brain back under some form of control.
Even so I felt it was tactful, when I said goodbye, to give both hands a firm "thank you” shake.“
