The body responds to environmental stressors by triggering autonomic reflexes in the pulmonary receptors, baroreceptors, and chemoreceptors to maintain homeostasis. Numerous studies have shown that ...

You may have noticed your baby being startled or reacting suddenly when you're trying to put them down to sleep. This is the Moro reflex, one of several normal reflexes that healthy babies are born ...

First described in 1875 by Wilhelm Heinrich Erb and Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal, the deep tendon reflex (DTR) is essential in examining and diagnosing neurologic disease. Deep tendon reflexes or, ...

Brisk reflexes refer to an above-average response during a reflex test. During a reflex test, your doctor tests your deep tendon reflexes with a reflex hammer to measure your response. This test is ...

Some people think that all babies ever do is eat and sleep. Yeah, and that… Well, they might not be doing back flips, but right from the first moment your baby's equipped with a number of reflexes to ...

The chemicals diffuse across the synapse and trigger an electrical impulse in the next neuron in the circuit. The electrical impulse reaches the end of the sensory neuron. Chemicals are released that ...

When babies are born, everything they experience is new. They go from being safe and warm in the womb to having all sorts of sights, sounds, smells, and feelings thrown at them. If your baby feels any ...

Babies are born with a sucking reflex to help them feed. The reflex is key to nursing or bottle feeding and may be weaker in some infants, They may need assistance from a feeding tube. Newborn babies ...