 Dr. Strangelove apparently suffers from agonistic apraxia (also  known as "alien hand syndrome"), a real neurological 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). Researchers at the University of Aberdeen who identified  it named it Dr. Strangelove Syndrome. According to Professor Sergio  Della Sala, the patients behave exactly like Dr. Strangelove:  "...[T]hey slam their hand and shout My hand does things that I  dont want it to do!"