Archaic reflexes in normal elderly people.
The AA. have considered the incidence of some primitive reflexes in the "normal" old people. 120 subjects have been examined (60 M and 60 F) between the 70 to 90 age-group. The patients have been selected on the basis of the absence of neurologic disorders, psychiatric and systematic or dysmetabolic diseases. All the subjects undergo a standard neurologic examination. Results show that the examined reflexes can be present in normal old people. These signs seem to be related to the physiological ageing of the nervous system.
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I e II Clinica Neurologica, II Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università Degli Studi di Napoli.
Modafferi
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Selvaggio
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Fragassi
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Vecchione
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Grasso
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012018:Reflex / Q000502:physiology*