Three primitive reflexes in normal adults
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 30 (2), 184
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.30.2.184
Abstract
One or more of three primitive reflexes (palmomental, snout, and corneomandibular) was elicited in 50.5% of 105 normal subjects in the third through the ninth decades of life. The reflexes appeared in a patterned fashion with advancing age. The palmomental reflex appeared earliest and was the most frequent reflex elicited at all ages. The snout and corneomandibular reflexes appeared at later ages and were elicited less frequently. The palmomental and snout reflexes often occurred alone, but the corneomandibular was elicited only when one or both of the other reflexes was also present. These reflexes appear to be normal phenomena in a significant proportion of the healthy population.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Physiologic and clinical investigations into 4 brain stem reflexesNeurology, 1962
- The Palmomental ReflexArchives of Neurology, 1961
- INTEGRATED FACIAL PATTERNS ELICITED BY STIMULATION OF THE BRAIN STEMArchives of Neurology & Psychiatry, 1943