These reflexes ensure the baby can feed, respond to sudden movements, and eventually gain more complex motor control. The presence of reflexes also signals healthy neurological development.

A reflex is an involuntary, rapid muscular response to a stimulus, or something that causes a reaction. It’s carried out by the nervous system.

How did the bodies of animals, including ours, become such fine-tuned movement machines? How vertebrates coordinate the eternal tug-o-war between involuntary reflexes and seamless voluntary ...

Reflexes Matter Why? Because reflexes assist neurologists in assessing the condition of the nervous system which includes the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles. We can’t function norma… ...

A new genetic study has identified neurological mechanisms as key drivers of chronic cough. The findings significantly ...

Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), the Nobel Prize–winning British physiologist, proposed that simple reflexes made up of neural circuits are the basic building blocks of the nervous system.

Listen to this article 0:00 / 0:00 Highlights: Blink reflex can be measured to see neurological health. A high-speed videography-based device to record and analyze a blink reflex has been developed.

Kelkar says sneezing is a neurological reflex. "The nerve impulses, they send a signal to the brain stem, where the sneezing center is located.

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