The tripartite origins of the tonic neck reflex: Gesell, Gerstmann, and Magnus

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 850-853

  Shevell, Michael ^a  

^a MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECEREBRATION; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX; REVIEW; TONIC NECK REFLEX; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; HISTORY; INFANT; NECK MUSCLE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER-SCHEINKER DISEASE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; NECK MUSCLES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX;

EID: 62849105896     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000343961.35429.09     Document Type: Article

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