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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 ...
Suffering from what's been pegged "Alien Hand Syndrome," Bryne witnessed the loss of control in her left hand surface twenty-eight years ago, ... 55-year-old Karen Byrne BBC
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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Jul 29, 2017 · ROSIN: Her problem, the doctors explained, was alien hand syndrome. See, to cure her epilepsy, they'd had to sever the two halves of her brain. BYRNE: Brain was split in half.
Jan 22, 2011 · January 22, 2011. Karen Byrne, a 55-year-old from New Jersey, has suffered from Alien Hand Syndrome for almost two decades, ever since she underwent an operation to cure her epilepsy. The rare condition causes Byrne's left hand (and occasionally her left leg) to behave as if under the command of an alien intelligence -- flailing about and ...
Jan 20, 2011 · Karen Byrne woke up after an operation to control her epilepsy to find she had no control of her left hand, a rare condition known as Alien Hand Syndrome. She told Dr Michael Mosley how she was very frightened at the time, but now her hand has been controlled by medication.
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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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