May 11, 2012 (San Antonio, Texas) — Pediatricians detect ocular disease in infants and children using the red reflex exam, but does it underestimate the presence of that disease? That's what ...

Researchers found that children who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with severe autism are hypersensitive to the motion of head turning. Scientists in California have linked the ...

Pulling your hand away from a hot object, blinking because it's very bright or kicking when someone taps the tendon below your kneecap - these are all innate reflex actions. They happen rapidly, you ...

How did the bodies of animals, including ours, become such fine-tuned movement machines? How vertebrates coordinate the eternal tug-o-war between involuntary reflexes and seamless voluntary movements ...

In your first moments with your newborn, you likely already saw their reflexes. The ones you might’ve noticed right away were the reflexes that help your baby eat, such as the rooting reflex or the ...

When your newborn is lying on their back, do you notice they often look like they have assumed the position of a fencer ready for swordplay? With their head turned to the same side as their ...