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Previous Volume 340:196 January 21, 1999 Number 3 Next

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View larger version (135K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. As a 5-month-old infant and his 30-month-old brother sat together for an informal portrait, the pressure of the infant's right great toe against his left sole induced reflex dorsiflexion of the left great toe. This reflex phenomenon constitutes one of the most famous signs in medicine: the Babinski reflex. The Babinski reflex is present in normal newborn infants and disappears as the central nervous system matures. Persistence of the reflex after the age of three years or its reappearance in later life indicates dysfunction of the pyramidal tract. The stimulus needed to elicit the reflex sign need . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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A Baby with a Babinski Reflex
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