Neural Exam - 3 month reflexes - root

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<html5media height="300" width="320">File:03mo 13.mp4</html5media> This infant is almost 3 months old.
  • The baby still has a root reflex and turns the mouth towards the stimulus.
  • The rooting reflex disappears at about 4 months of age.


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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
Movie Source - Paul D. Larsen  
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.
Links: Neural Exam Movies | Movies



Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, April 24) Embryology Neural Exam - 3 month reflexes - root. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Neural_Exam_-_3_month_reflexes_-_root

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