An unidentified man from Ireland with confusion and signs of a brain injury actually had an extremely rare condition that has ...

Can you imagine your hand slapping you without your brain prompting it to? It sounds like fiction but there is indeed some truth in it. This real and distressing problem was likened to the Jekyll and ...

It's a case of, literally, one hand not knowing what the other is doing. Known as Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS), this rare medical condition causes a person's hand to involuntarily cause havoc, as if it ...

Scientists have been left scratching their heads for years over some extremely rare diseases - now being no closer to finding a cure now than they were before. These conditions, which affect fewer ...

Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS) is a rare neurological disorder distinguished by involuntary, seemingly purposeful limb movements coupled with a sensation of estrangement from the affected limb. This ...

AROUND one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health issue of some sort each year. While one in six people suffer with common issues such as anxiety or depression, many others are ...

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. Her surgeon had cut her corpus callosum, a ...