Summary of Seminar

Dr. Hawke emphasized that repeated examinations, flexible approach, and obser vation were particularly important in the neurobogic examination of the infant and child. A formal adult-like neurologic cx amination was impossible uintil later child hood. Transient infantile reflexes such as the Mono reflex, the palmar-grasp reflex, an(1 tonic neck reflex usually disappear by 3 to 4 months of age. The Mono reflex does not return once it disappears buit the palmar grasp reflex may return if the frontal lobes are damaged. Persistence of the complete tonic neck reflex is associated with damage to the brain. The abdominal reflexes persist in the presence of congenital or neonatal pyramidal lesions. The pbantan reflexes may be physiologically upgoing until the age of 2 years.