Background and aims: The effect of the infusion of synthetic oxytocin (OT) on newborn behaviour has received little attention although there is a growing body of evidence that suggests it can affect ...

The STNR is a primitive reflex that is characterized by upper extremity (UE) extension and lower extremity (LE) flexion with neck extension, and by UE flexion and LE extension with neck flexion.

Supposedly 'primitive' reflexes may involve more sophisticated brain function than previously thought, according to researchers at Imperial College London. The Vestibular-Ocular Reflex (or VOR), ...

Doctors test for them within minutes of birth, because these simple motions reveal complex brain development. Primitive reflexes show how deeply survival is written into our biology.