[Neurological findings (especially "developmental reflexes") in residents of homes for the aged (author's transl)].
86 residents of several homes for the aged in Berlin, aged 75 to 96 years (mean age 86.3 years), were examined neurologically. Many showed the following aberrant neurological signs: Pallaesthesia and dermolexia were extinct in the lower extremities; the ankle jerks could not be elicited; the palmomental, orbicularis oris reflex, grasping and the snout reflexes were positive; there was a hypokinetic-hypertonic motor syndrome. The statistical analyses and the follow-up dynamics of our findings argue for such age-dependent changes of the CNS as the basis for the grasping and snout reflexes and for the involuntary movements of the elderly.
D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006987:Hypesthesia; D008297:Male; D009069:Movement Disorders; D009420:Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D012018:Reflex; D001405:Reflex, Babinski
Neurologische Befunde (insbesondere "Entwicklungsreflexe") bei über 75 jährigen Altenheimbewohnern