The primitive reflexes and the postural reactions comprise one of the earliest, simplest, and most frequently used tools among child neurologists to assess the central nervous system integrity of infants and young children. Infants with cerebral palsy have been known to manifest persistence or delay in the disappearance of primitive reflexes and pathologic or absent postural reactions. The clin...

Recent studies indicate a modular organization of the nociceptive withdrawal reflex system. Each module has a characteristic receptive field, closely matching the withdrawal movement caused by its effector muscle. In the rat, the strength of the sensory input to each module is tuned during the first postnatal weeks, i.e., erroneous spinal connections are depressed, and adequate connections are ...

salivary diagnostics has fascinated many researcheres and has been tested as a valuable tool in the diagnosis of many systemic conditions and for drug monitoring. advances in the field of molecular biology, salivary genomics and proteomics have led to the discovery of new molecular markers for oral cancer diagnosis, therapeutics and prognosis. oral cancer is a potentially fatal disease and the ...

Conflict of interest: non-existent extensor posturing and missing or incomplete oral reflexes 4.5. In addition, difficulties may occur in carrying out oral motor skills such as: lingual mobility alterations, exaggerated jaw opening, insufficient lip closure and reduction of fat deposits in the cheeks. These alterations affect remaining sucking strength and therefore result in a loss of rhythm a...

Case presentation: Female patient, 8 years old, born in Itanhaem, from São Paulo, with a previous context of hypotonic infant syndrome, repetitive head nodding movements, convergent strabismus, alopecia, low implantation the ears and short stature. On evaluation, he was alert, without language alterations, threshold for fructation, difficulty concentrating, hyperactivity, but evidence intellect...

INTRODUCTION Polyneuropathy is one of the most prevalent neurologic disorders. Although several studies explored the role of the neurological examination in polyneuropathy, they were mostly restricted to specific subgroups of patients and have not correlated examination findings with symptoms and electrophysiological results. OBJECTIVES To explore the sensitivity and specificity of different ...

AIMS Review of evidence in support of an oral-facial growth impairment in the development of pediatric sleep apnea in non-obese children. METHOD Review of experimental data from infant monkeys with experimentally induced nasal resistance. Review of early historical data in the orthodontic literature indicating the abnormal oral-facial development associated with mouth breathing and nasal resi...