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The Dr Strangelove syndrome
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alien hand syndrome
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The
condition
of not being able to control a
hand
. The result is sometimes that the
uncontrollable
hand starts
fight
ing with the other one. Apparently there are a few dozens of documented cases. It is of course named after
Dr. Strangelove
in "
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
", where he uses one hand to try and stop the other one from making
nazi
salute
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According to my
film history
prof
, Dr. Strangelove's hand was actually supposed to be
mechanical
-- making Strangelove a form of half-man half-machine and reinforcing the out-of-control
technology
theme. (I'm guessing this information is from the
Peter George
novel on which the movie is based, since it is not apparent in the film.) Thus the resemblance to the "
alien hand syndrome
," an actual affliction that can be caused by a
stroke
or other brain injury causing damage to the nerve fibers that connect the two brain hemispheres (the
corpus callosum
),
could
be purely coincidental. Strangelove's character is sometimes said to be a blend of
Henry Kissinger
,
Edward Teller
, and
Herman Kahn
.
from classnotes; description of the "alien hand syndrome" taken off imdb.com
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