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WorksheetsAlien Hand Syndrome
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is AHS?
Psychosomatic condition involving rapid heartbeat, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations, allegedly occurring when individuals become exposed to objects, artworks, or phenomena of great beauty
Rare neurological condition that causes one hand to act on its own free will.
Rare neurological disorder characterized by distortions of visual perception, the body image, and the experience of time.
Psychological disorder that can cause someone to believe that someone they love, a person close to them, has been replaced by an imposter, a duplicate.
What is a symptom of the alien hand syndrome?
Nausea
Sensory loss
Vomiting
Euphoria
What is a cause of the alien hand syndrome?
Stroke
Dehydration
Infection
Overeating
When was AHS first recorded?
1909
1964
1908
1963
The prevalence of Alien Hand Syndrome is typically found in
Children
Adolescent
Adult
Old people
Alien Hand Syndrome is also referred as
(a)
In the case of alien hand syndrome,
the patient was able to follow the doctor's verbal instruction to raise her left hand because her left brain can send a message to her right brain to mover her left hand
that middle-aged woman kept hitting her own face with her left hand was because her left brain hemisphere had been removed
she kept hitting herself with left hand was because her right brain hemisphere had been removed
she kept hurting herself with her left hand was because her corpus callosum had been cut off
Which statement the following is true about AHS?
There is no cure for alien hand syndrome.
Therapies and pharmacologic options for alien hand syndrome lack development, but scientists are working on treatments to reduce symptoms.
People who have AHS after brain illness or a stroke may recover after some time.
Recovery is less successful for people with neurodegenerative diseases.
Which one of the following is NOT the major form of AHS based on the location of the underlying causative lesion?
Callosal
Frontal or anterior
Posterior
Olney
Neuroscientist who first studied split-brain patients, including alien hand syndrome was
(a)
