Primitive Reflexes

Reflexes are actions of the nervous system which will be automatically, without the participation of the higher centers of the brain. An example of a reflex is when you move the handle to a hot pan on a stove. You remove your hand before that realize you even it's hot. This is called a reflex of the column spinal chord. The entrance is the body of the skin on your hand and is transmitted by a nerve in the spinal cord. From there, two things occur. First of all, the incoming nerve is connected directly to an another nerve that is sent to a muscle that can remove the hand until you get burned too badly. It happens very quickly and without thinking. At the same time the information is sent to the brain, so you can become aware of what just happened.Primitive reflexes are a little more complicated, but the principle is the same. They happen automatically without the involvement of the conscious brain. We have all the primitive reflexes seen in action when we put our fingers in hand a baby and the hand grasps the finger. Babies also turn head to something brush against their cheeks and if they find something there they will start to suck. Adults to do these things because our brain, specifically in the upper part of the brain called the cortex, sending signals down to stop these types of reflexes before starting. In fact, the primitive reflexes should be undetectable in more children a year.Think of that would be like trying to write when whenever you put a pencil in your hand, you make a fist, or how it would affect what you eat, so whenever something has touched your lips mouth tried to suck. It would be very difficult because you would have to think about stopping these reflexes before that you could do the action that you want. Yet, it's the kind of things that would happen to the children that nervous systems have not developed the ability to disable these reflexes. There are many primitive reflexes. Some cause an arm to redress when we move our head, or to comply with our body forward when our heads looking. They can interfere with smooth transition vision to near where the ability to use both sides of the body together.Many children with learning disabilities have retained primitive reflexes are responsible for their degree of difficulty in accomplishing tasks that they need in school. If your child is the difficulty in school, or does not appear to move smoothly, or lack of coordination, it is crucial that it be evaluated by a physician can determine if the primitive reflexes are present and prescribing a program of stimulation/inhibition reflex to treat.