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Jul 29, 2017 · And her left hand, this new alien hand, seemed to be getting directions primarily from her right hemisphere. And so what Karen got to see more clearly than most of us was that there really were ...
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 ...
Jun 15, 2017 · The Roots Of Consciousness: We're Of 2 Minds. After surgery to treat her epilepsy severed the connection between the two halves of her brain, Karen's left hand took on a mind of its own, acting ...
Jun 15, 2017 · And her left hand, this new alien hand, seemed to be getting directions primarily from her right hemisphere. And so what Karen got to see more clearly than most of us was that there really were ...
Communication between the two hemispheres of the brain is made possible by the bundles of axons, or commissures, that connect them. The largest of these bundles, known as the corpus callosum, consists of about 200 million axons running from one hemisphere to the other. In the 1950s, American neuroscientist Roger Sperry and his team discovered ...
The brain can be divided into two hemispheres. Jane's left hand movements are controlled by the right hemisphere in her brain. This is called: Contralateral innervation. Active touch information, or sensory information from one side of the body going to the opportunity hemisphere, is often called: Haptic information.
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Feb 1, 2009 · Mind & Brain. A PATIENT NAMED SALLY recently suffered a stroke that damaged her right parietal lobe without affecting other parts of the brain. The left side of her body—controlled by the right ...
