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Posted by Barb Dyer on July 5th 2007, 22:23

How many zoos have told stories here along the lines of "I saw it and I couldn't resist touching it" ... hmmmm? I know I've been in that situation.Well who knows what you'll find when surfing, I stumbled on this text in Wikipedia:(apologies in advance, this is thick medical writing and difficult to read)QUOTE A related syndrome described by the French neurologist Francois L'Hermitte involves the release through disinhibition of a tendency to compulsively utilize objects that present themselves in the surrounding environment around the patient. The behavior of the patient is, in a sense, obligatorily linked to the "affordances" (using terminology introduced by the American ecological psychologist, J.J. Gibson) presented by objects that are located within the immediate environment. This condition, termed "Utilization Behavior", is most often associated with extensive bilateral frontal lobe damage and might actually be thought of as "bilateral" Alien Hand Syndrome in which the patient is compulsively directed by external environmental contingencies (e.g., the presence of a hairbrush on the table in front of them) and has no capacity to "hold back" and inhibit pre-potent motor programs that are obligatorily linked to the presence of specific external objects in the peri-personal space of the patient. When the frontal lobe damage is bilateral and generally more extensive, the patient completely loses the ability to act in a self-directed manner and becomes totally dependent upon the surrounding environmental indicators to guide their behavior, a condition also identified by L'Hermitte, and referred to as "Environmental Dependency Syndrome". Frontal lobe damage, huh? So if a horse kicks you just the right way, then maybe you'll never be able to keep your hands off again...

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Posted by admasst235 on July 5th 2007, 22:37

Uh HAH! by george i've got it! That explains a lot of things! Thanks for finding it!

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Posted by Faunak8 on July 5th 2007, 23:35

*in my best presidential tone*"I did not have tactile relations with that genitalia*

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Posted by Zacherias on July 5th 2007, 23:44

QUOTE (Barb Dyer @ Jul 5 2007, 09:23 PM) How many zoos have told stories here along the lines of "I saw it and I couldn't resist touching it" ... hmmmm? I know I've been in that situation.Well who knows what you'll find when surfing, I stumbled on this text in Wikipedia:(apologies in advance, this is thick medical writing and difficult to read)QUOTE A related syndrome described by the French neurologist Francois L'Hermitte involves the release through disinhibition of a tendency to compulsively utilize objects that present themselves in the surrounding environment around the patient. The behavior of the patient is, in a sense, obligatorily linked to the "affordances" (using terminology introduced by the American ecological psychologist, J.J. Gibson) presented by objects that are located within the immediate environment. This condition, termed "Utilization Behavior", is most often associated with extensive bilateral frontal lobe damage and might actually be thought of as "bilateral" Alien Hand Syndrome in which the patient is compulsively directed by external environmental contingencies (e.g., the presence of a hairbrush on the table in front of them) and has no capacity to "hold back" and inhibit pre-potent motor programs that are obligatorily linked to the presence of specific external objects in the peri-personal space of the patient. When the frontal lobe damage is bilateral and generally more extensive, the patient completely loses the ability to act in a self-directed manner and becomes totally dependent upon the surrounding environmental indicators to guide their behavior, a condition also identified by L'Hermitte, and referred to as "Environmental Dependency Syndrome". Frontal lobe damage, huh? So if a horse kicks you just the right way, then maybe you'll never be able to keep your hands off again... that;s wikked. 10!......... wait, i can't vote. you'll have to take my word for it. what do you think the ods are that it would force you to keep your hands in your pants at all times. what's nearer than that?! that would be pretty convenient i'd say

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Posted by mach on July 6th 2007, 0:07

QUOTE (Barb Dyer @ Jul 5 2007, 09:23 PM) How many zoos have told stories here along the lines of "I saw it and I couldn't resist touching it" ... hmmmm? I know I've been in that situation.Well who knows what you'll find when surfing, I stumbled on this text in Wikipedia:(apologies in advance, this is thick medical writing and difficult to read)QUOTE A related syndrome described by the French neurologist Francois L'Hermitte involves the release through disinhibition of a tendency to compulsively utilize objects that present themselves in the surrounding environment around the patient. The behavior of the patient is, in a sense, obligatorily linked to the "affordances" (using terminology introduced by the American ecological psychologist, J.J. Gibson) presented by objects that are located within the immediate environment. This condition, termed "Utilization Behavior", is most often associated with extensive bilateral frontal lobe damage and might actually be thought of as "bilateral" Alien Hand Syndrome in which the patient is compulsively directed by external environmental contingencies (e.g., the presence of a hairbrush on the table in front of them) and has no capacity to "hold back" and inhibit pre-potent motor programs that are obligatorily linked to the presence of specific external objects in the peri-personal space of the patient. When the frontal lobe damage is bilateral and generally more extensive, the patient completely loses the ability to act in a self-directed manner and becomes totally dependent upon the surrounding environmental indicators to guide their behavior, a condition also identified by L'Hermitte, and referred to as "Environmental Dependency Syndrome". Frontal lobe damage, huh? So if a horse kicks you just the right way, then maybe you'll never be able to keep your hands off again... I think i might have been kicked by a horse that way...but can't remeber it Anyway this happens only when i see my girl , then i really lose control over my hands , mouth, tongue ...i loose control over my whole body ...

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Posted by Itzwolf on July 6th 2007, 0:14

Well...I've got the frontal lobe damage part of it covered...so who knows. Of course it wasn't that way when I started but they don't have to know that

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Posted by Barb Dyer on July 6th 2007, 3:56

In the presence of a horse or dog, my hands become like a vehicle with an automatic transmission, set in Drive, so I have to apply the brake to keep them back. Otherwise I'll just settle into massaging the animal.

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