Informal Reflexive Essay
NEONATAL PRIMITIVE REFLEXES
INTRODUCTION
Normal, full-term newborns are capable of responding to the external stimuli such as visual, olfactory, auditory, oral, and tactile stimuli. They even can signal their needs likes crying when they are hungry, wet, or bored but they have limited ability to respond to their caregivers. They exhibit the generalized movements which seems disorganized, purposeless and meaningless to caregivers. However, the newborn’s generalized reflexive movements are eventually replaced by cortically mediated voluntary actions in old infants and children. In addition, these neonatal primitive reflexes can be elicited by appropriate peripheral stimuli and should be disintegrated and replaced by reactions which allow children
INTRODUCTION
Normal, full-term newborns are capable of responding to the external stimuli such as visual, olfactory, auditory, oral, and tactile stimuli. They even can signal their needs likes crying when they are hungry, wet, or bored but they have limited ability to respond to their caregivers. They exhibit the generalized movements which seems disorganized, purposeless and meaningless to caregivers. However, the newborn’s generalized reflexive movements are eventually replaced by cortically mediated voluntary actions in old infants and children. In addition, these neonatal primitive reflexes can be elicited by appropriate peripheral stimuli and should be disintegrated and replaced by reactions which allow children