spinal reflex

The whole thing was carried out by my spinal reflexes.

"It's the effect produced by our spinal reflexes," she said.

Among his discoveries was the cerebral inhibition of spinal reflexes.

Also it is known that the polysynaptic spinal reflexes are disinhibited in cats.

The spinal reflexes act to stabilize limbs against disturbances.

Not even her spinal reflexes survived intact.

This results in uninhibited spinal reflexes manifested as clonic activity (shivering).

This paralyzes them, stops any conscious movement, but it keeps their spinal reflexes intact for study."

Schwartze studied the vestibular apparatus, the air-righting reflex and related spinal reflexes for over 30 years.

The Ib sensory feedback generates spinal reflexes and supraspinal responses which control muscle contraction.

Scientific studies on animals with various brain lesions were interpreted as supporting the idea that the responses seen in babies were merely spinal reflexes.

It works by stimulating spinal reflexes that reverse muscle contractures (shortened muscles) through the use of fine flexible acupuncture style needles.

The nervous system would not need to directly estimate limb dynamics, but rather muscles and spinal reflexes would provide all the necessary information about the system's state.

"Transcortical reflex" describes the operation of motor cortex in the way similar to spinal reflexes that influence spinal motoneuron firing.

This natural brake helps muscles respond solely to the conscious control or spinal reflexes but also has the effect of reducing the force of conscious contractions.

Impaired ability of damaged motor neurons to regulate descending pathways gives rise to disordered spinal reflexes, increased excitability of muscle spindles, and decreased synaptic inhibition.

This reflex has the shortest latency of all spinal reflexes including the Golgi tendon reflex and reflexes mediated by pain and cutaneous receptors.

It is the intrinsic musculoskeletal properties of a frog's leg, not neurally mediated spinal reflexes, that stabilize its wiping movements at irritants when the leg movement is instigated.

He had been practising reflexology on his patients but found he had more success if he gave up trying to bring about a specific result and gave a general massage of the spinal reflexes.

Reflex circuits vary in complexity-the simplest spinal reflexes are mediated by a three-element chain, beginning with sensory neurons which activate interneurons in the spinal cord, which then activate motor neurons.

Hales' work on the growth pattern of long bones, demonstrating epiphyseal growth; his demonstration of spinal reflexes in the frog and his suggestion that electricity played a role in allowing nerves to control muscle function are also noteworthy.

Beritashvili's most significant contribution was the discovery of the mediation of animal psychoneural behavior by image-driven memory, as well as the discovery of the rhythmical course of reciprocal inhibition in spinal reflexes, the first demonstration of the excitatory and inhibitory reactions in the brain stem neuropil and many others.

The involvement of spinal reflexes in the genesis of muscular spasticity suggested its possible treatment by surgical interruption of the sensory branch of the thoracic and lumbar nerves (rhizotomy), and Foerster developed in 1908 an operation to cut the posterior sensory root in order to alleviate spasticity.

Signs may appear over days or weeks following brain or spinal cord damage, including muscle weakness, decreased motor control including a loss of the ability to perform fine movements, increased vigor (and decreased threshold) of spinal reflexes including spasticity, and an extensor plantar response known as the Babinski sign.