After all of the brain disorder presentations I decided to look more into other brain disorders and I came across some pretty weird ones. A lot of the symptoms I had already heard about at some time or another but I didn't know they were actual brain disorders. Here are some examples:
Anarchic Hand Syndrome- also called "alien hand syndrome", someone with this disease has no control over one of their hands and that hand appears to have a mind of its own. The hand can unbutton buttons, remove clothing and manipulate close to anything. This is most common in people who have had the two hemispheres of the brain surgically separated (usually to cure symptoms of epilepsy), after brain surgery, after a stroke, or infections. There is no cure.
Foreign Accent Syndrome: Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare condition following a head injury, trauma or stroke. This syndrome causes someone to speak their native language as if they had a foreign accent. Research has shown on that patients suffering from this condition, the brain’s speech center was affected and damaged.
There were a lot more crazy ones but these are two I thought were pretty unusual.
http://www.blogissues.com/2007/12/04/26-strange-unbelievably-bizarre-and-weird-mental-disorders/
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