Neural Exam - 3 month reflexes - Moro

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<html5media height="300" width="320">File:03mo 14.mp4</html5media> This infant is almost 3 months old.
  • The baby no longer has a Moro reflex.
  • Usually the Moro reflex is absent by 4 to 5 months of age.
  • Persistence of the Moro reflex beyond this time can be seen with upper motor neuron disorders.


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3 Months Neural Exam Movies: normal behaviour | cranial nerves | Tone - head and trunk control | upper extremity‎ | hand movements | lower extremity Positions - supine | prone | ventral suspension | vertical suspension | Reflexes - Deep tendon reflexes | Plantar reflex‎ | Root | Moro | Galant | Grasp | Asymmetric tonic neck‎ | Neural Exam Movies | Neonatal Diagnosis
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Movies from the PediNeuroLogic Exam website are used by permission of Paul D. Larsen, M.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center and Suzanne S. Stensaas, Ph.D., University of Utah School of Medicine. Additional materials were drawn from resources provided by Alejandro Stern, Stern Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Kathleen Digre, M.D., University of Utah; and Daniel Jacobson, M.D., Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin. The movies are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, March 19) Embryology Neural Exam - 3 month reflexes - Moro. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Neural_Exam_-_3_month_reflexes_-_Moro

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