Raves: Split Brain Syndrome

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February 22, 2012

01:57

Have you ever felt indecisive? Like you’ve got an angel on one shoulder, and an extremely loud devil on the other? Well imagine if your right hand literally didn’t know what your left hand was doing! This is the reality for a small number of people afflicted with split-brain syndrome, which is sometimes accompanied by so-called “alien hand syndrome.”

Forget the battle of right-brained vs. left-brained… this is all out war.

_{Host: Rheanna Sand

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References:

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jbogen/text/ref130.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19110149

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12225163}