You may have noticed your baby being startled or reacting suddenly when you're trying to put them down to sleep. This is the Moro reflex, one of several normal reflexes that healthy babies are born ...

The rooting reflex allows a newborn baby to find your breast or a bottle to begin feeding. It’s one of several reflexes, or involuntary movements, that babies are born with which help them through ...

Vi (ASX: DVL) has achieved a technical breakthrough in the evaluation of its robotic RRAM reflex platform, demonstrating that ...

Before the days of diagnostic imaging, physicians were left to use clues on the outside of the body to guess what was happening on the inside of the body. One of the first diagnostic breakthroughs to ...

The chemicals diffuse across the synapse and trigger an electrical impulse in the next neuron in the circuit. The electrical impulse reaches the end of the sensory neuron. Chemicals are released that ...

Babies are born with a sucking reflex to help them feed. The reflex is key to nursing or bottle feeding and may be weaker in some infants, They may need assistance from a feeding tube. Newborn babies ...

This creates an automatic and rapid response to a stimulus, which minimises any damage to the body from potentially harmful conditions, such as touching something hot. A reflex action follows this ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The gag reflex, also known as the pharyngeal reflex or laryngeal spasm, is a contraction of the ...