Spasticity is a condition in which muscles become stiff and tight from contracting for long periods. It's usually caused by conditions that affect the central nervous system, which is responsible ...

Three medications have spasticity reduction as their primary indication: baclofen (Lioresal ®), dantrolene (Dantrium ®), and tizanidine (Zanaflex ®). These drugs represent the mainstays of ...

Life-changing events may bring immense challenges such as spasticity, a complication of certain neurological conditions that can greatly interfere with your everyday life. At Craig H. Neilsen ...

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norfolk, UK Spasticity can be defined as a velocity-dependent resistance to passive movement of a joint and ...

But when it comes to your reflexes, just how 'young' are you? A fiendishly difficult reaction time test has been developed, which claims to reveal exactly how old your reactions are.

Pavlov was much more interested in physiology than psychology. He looked upon the young science of psychiatry a little dubiously. But he did think that conditioned reflexes could explain the ...

How vertebrates coordinate the eternal tug-o-war between involuntary reflexes and seamless voluntary movements is a mystery that Francisco Valero-Cuevas’ Lab in USC Alfred E. Mann Department of ...

People with hypothyroidism can have delayed ankle reflexes when someone taps the Achilles tendon. This is known as Woltman’s sign, and doctors can use it to help make a diagnosis. The thyroid ...

and/or spasticity. Broadly, the study is designed to fill a critical gap in the relationship between medical doctors that prescribe medicinal marijuana and their patients with qualifying medical ...

The team that first recorded vagus nerve signals in humans has now isolated the electrical activity of individual neurons ...

Guardians Of The Galaxy Debut: Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 #1 (2008) Powers & Abilities: Super-humanoid strength, durability, speed, agility, and reflexes; Kree/Titan hybrid physiology; FTL flight ...