Agency and Insanity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Garvey
Keyword(s):  
Agency Theory ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Traditional Theory ◽  
Alien Hand Syndrome ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Alien Hand ◽  
Title Character

66 Buffalo Law Review 123 (2018)This Article offers an unorthodox theory of insanity. According to the traditional theory, insanity is a cognitive or volitional incapacity arising from a mental disease or defect. As an alternative to the traditional theory, some commentators have proposed that insanity is an especially debilitating form of irrationality. Each of these theories faces fair-minded objections. In contrast to these theories, this Article proposes that a person is insane if and because he lacks a sense of agency. The theory of insanity it defends might therefore be called the lost-agency theory.According to the lost-agency theory, a person lacks a sense of agency when he experiences his mind and body moving but doesn’t experience himself as the author or agent of those movements. The title character in the movie Dr. Strangelove suffered from what’s known as alien hand syndrome. People suffering from this syndrome experience the moving hand as their hand but don’t experience themselves as the author or agent of its movements. The lost-agency theory portrays insanity as alien hand syndrome writ large. The insane actor is like someone possessed by an alien self. He’s not in charge of his mind or body when he commits the crime.

Alien Hand Syndrome

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Gary Goldberg ◽  
Matthew E. Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Alien Hand Syndrome ◽  
Alien Hand

scholarly journals Pure Posterior Alien Hand Syndrome Following a Cerebrovascular Lesion: Clinicoradiological Correlates

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Burak Yulug ◽  
Lütfü Hanoglu ◽  
Tansel Cakır ◽  
Burcu Polat ◽  
Ahmet Mithat Tavlı ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alien Hand Syndrome ◽  
Alien Hand ◽  
Cerebrovascular Lesion

scholarly journals Alien Hand Syndrome: A Case Report and Approach to Rehabilitation

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
David Mackarel ◽  
Sowmy Murickal ◽  
Farah Kassim ◽  
Helen Banks ◽  
Shagufay Mahendran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Alien Hand Syndrome ◽  
Alien Hand

scholarly journals Migraine Aura and Related Phenomena: Beyond Scotomata and Scintillations

Cephalalgia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 1368-1377 ◽  
Author(s):  
MB Vincent ◽  
N Hadjikhani
Keyword(s):  
Spreading Depression ◽  
Migraine Aura ◽  
Routine Examination ◽  
Colour Perception ◽  
Cortical Areas ◽  
Alien Hand Syndrome ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Alien Hand ◽  
Cortical Physiology ◽  
Human Faces

Migraine affects the cortical physiology and may induce dysfunction both ictally and interictally Although visual symptoms predominate during aura, other contiguous cortical areas related to less impressive symptoms are also impaired in migraine. Answers from 72.2% migraine with aura and 48.6% of migraine without aura patients on human faces and objects recognition, colour perception, proper names recalling and memory in general showed dysfunctions suggestive of prosopagnosia, dyschromatopsia, ideational apraxia, alien hand syndrome, proper name anomia or aphasia, varying in duration and severity. Symptoms frequently occurred in a successively building-up pattern fitting with the geographical distribution of the various cortical functions. When specifically inquired, migraineurs reveal less evident symptoms that are not usually considered during routine examination. Spreading depression most likely underlies the aura symptoms progression. Interictal involvement indicates that MWA and MWoA are not completely silent outside attacks, and that both subforms of migraine may share common mechanisms.

Poster 284: Alien Hand Syndrome Complicated by Contralateral Limb Apraxia: A Case Report

PM&R ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. S94-S95
Author(s):  
Martin D. Weaver ◽  
Gemayaret Alvarez-Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Contralateral Limb ◽  
Alien Hand Syndrome ◽  
Limb Apraxia ◽  
Alien Hand

Sensory alien hand syndrome in corticobasal degeneration: A cerebral blood flow study

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1288-1291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Delrieu ◽  
Pierre Payoux ◽  
Olivier Toulza ◽  
Jean-Paul Esquerre ◽  
Bruno Vellas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Cerebral Blood Flow ◽  
Corticobasal Degeneration ◽  
Alien Hand Syndrome ◽  
Alien Hand ◽  
Flow Study

Alien hand syndrome and dystonia in a pediatric patient

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 1557-1559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teesta Soman ◽  
Thomas D. L. Steeves ◽  
Anthony E. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Pediatric Patient ◽  
Alien Hand Syndrome ◽  
Alien Hand

Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease initially presenting with alien hand syndrome

2002 ◽  
Vol 249 (5) ◽  
pp. 631-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Oberndorfer ◽  
Sabine Urbanits ◽  
Heinz Lahrmann ◽  
Christa Jarius ◽  
Gerhard Albrecht ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alien Hand Syndrome ◽  
Alien Hand ◽  
Jakob Disease
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