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Jan 20, 2011 · Last summer I met 55-year-old Karen Byrne in New Jersey, who suffers from Alien Hand Syndrome. Her left hand, and occasionally her left leg, behaves as if it were under the control of an alien ...
When she woke up from surgery, Karen thought she was doing great. But then something very alarming started to happen and her doctors had a new diagnosis: Ali...
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Feb 9, 2018 · Invisibilia featured Byrne and her alien hand last summer, and Giant Ant Studios recently created an otherworldly animation of Byrne's story. Byrne says she's gotten used to her left hand's new ...
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BeskrivningFifty five-year-old Karen Byrne lives in New Jersey. She had a surgery at 27 to control her epilepsy. Since then something bizarre started happeni...
Mar 2, 2018 · It turned out that the surgery, which split the nerve fibres connecting the two hemispheres of Byrne’s brain, had left her with a rare neurological condition known as Alien Hand Syndrome. Because each of her hands was now being controlled by an independently operating brain hemisphere, she was left with a bizarre power struggle on her hands.
Jan 24, 2011 · Karen Byrne's left hand has a mind of its own, and has done everything from slap herself in the face to unbutton her blouse, all involuntarily. Suffering from what's been pegged "Alien Hand ...
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Jul 29, 2017 · It did seem to have a different mind. ROSIN: When Karen went home from the hospital, the hand - this new hand with a mind of its own - went with her. A lot of the time, the hand was OK, but it ...
