Blinking to sudden illumination. A brain stem reflex present in neocortical death.
Further evidence that the blink reflex to light is a brain stem reflex was provided by a patient who continued to blink to sudden illumination despite anoxic neocortical death with electrocerebral silence and absent summated cortical visual evoked responses.
D001926:Brain Death; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012018:Reflex