Adie-Critchley syndrome
Alternative eponyms
Related people
A syndrome of forced grasping and groping
Description
A phenomenon caused by tumour of contralateral frontal lobe superior part of area 6: When an object is placed in one hand of a patient, he grasps it, and it cannot be withdrawn because he involuntary does not release it.
Bibliography
- W. J. Adie, M. Critchley:
Forced grasping and groping.
Brain, London, 1927, 50: 142-170.
- J. F. Fulton:
Muscular contraction and the reflex control of movement.
Doctorate thesis. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926.
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