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"Compulsive Grasping Hand"

This name has been given to involuntary left hand grasping related to all right hand movements in a patient with a callosal hemorrhage. This has been interpreted as a motor grasp response to contralateral hand movements, and a variant of anarchic or alien hand. The description does seem to differ from that of behaviors labeled as forced groping and the alien grasp reflex (q.v.).