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Progression from decorticate posturing to decerebrate posturing is often indicative of uncal (transtentorial) or tonsilar brain herniation.

Decerebrate attacks appear late in the disease.

This phenomenon is known as decerebrate rigidity.

A hallmark of decerebrate posturing is extended elbows.

"Looks like some signs of decerebrate rigidity.

Nevertheless, a decerebrate animal cannot be conditioned as specifically as can one with its cerebrum intact.

Decerebrate cats were made to walk on a level surface with their heads level, tilted up or tilted down.

You haven't the sense of a decerebrate Capellan grackle!"

Decerebrate posturing is commonly seen in pontine strokes.

Grade 5: Deep coma; decerebrate rigidity; moribund.

In decerebrate posturing, the head is arched back, the arms are extended by the sides, and the legs are extended.

If the superior colliculus is damaged, it is called decerebration and causes decerebrate rigidity.

A patient with decorticate posturing may begin to show decerebrate posturing, or may go from one form of posturing to the other.

Experiments on decerebrate rats have shown that noxious stimulation may generate reflex hyperexcitability in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord.

The cycle period of fictive locomotion in decerebrate cats is predominantly altered by modifying the extension phase, rather than the flexion phase.

In other words, a decorticate lesion is closer to the cortex, as opposed to a decerebrate cortex that is closer to the brainstem.

Decerebrate posturing indicates brain stem damage, specifically damage below the level of the red nucleus (e.g. mid-collicular lesion).

Decerebrate posturing is a stereotypical posturing in which the legs are similarly extended (stretched), but the arms are also stretched (extended at the elbow).

The muscle relaxant properties of nitrazepam are produced via inhibition of polysynaptic pathways in the spinal cord of decerebrate cats.

In herniation syndrome, which is indicative of brain herniation, decorticate posturing occurs, and, if the condition is left untreated, develops into decerebrate posturing.

Opisthotonus is also described as a potential CNS symptom of heat stroke along with bizarre behavior, hallucinations, decerebrate rigidity, oculogyric crisis and cerebellar dysfunction.

The cerebrum is not completely essen- O U R MIND 325 tial, to be sure, for a decerebrate animal can still be conditioned.

A recent study by Gottschall and Nichols studied the hindlimb of a decerebrate cat during walking (a CPG controlled function) in response to changes in head pitch.

Decerebrate posturing is also called decerebrate response, decerebrate rigidity, or extensor posturing.

A decorticate posturing indicates a lesion (a point of damage) at or above the red nucleus, whereas a decerebrate posturing indicates a lesion at or below the red nucleus.

Activation of gamma motor neurons is thought to be important in decerebrate rigidity due to studies in animals showing that dorsal root transection eliminates decerebrate rigidity symptoms.