LONG survival of patients with complete severance of the spinal cord is rarely encountered in civilian life. During the recent world conflict, however, the high incidence of casualties from ...

A new tool may help neurologists predict which coma patients may be candidates for organ donation, according to a new study. A new tool may help neurologists predict which coma patients may be ...

LONDON. Royal Society, January 15.—Sir Charles Sherrington and E. G. T. Liddell: Further observations on myo-tatic reflexes. The myotatic reflex of the knee-extensor obtains after pre-collicular as ...

LET us revert now to the reflex “standing” exhibited by the decerebrate animal. We traced it to a postural contraction of the antigravity muscles, in each of which the contraction was due to a ...