While training to grow muscle, most people overlook an innate function in the body which can help build strength: the stretch reflex. "The stretch reflex is something that we all have," explains ...

As soon as your baby’s born, you’ll notice their primitive reflexes — although you might not know them by name. Case in point: Nothing in the world produces the same amount of wonder that you feel ...

Exercise programmes designed to improve reading and writing skills could provide the key to transforming the lives of dyslexic sufferers. Earlier this month, pioneering research showed exercises used ...

Ever wonder how babies seem to automatically know how to do things like grasp, eat, roll over and eventually walk? The answer is in our central and peripheral nervous system, where primitive reflexes ...

When you were developing in your mother’s womb, you inherited several codes. You had innate codes for your hair color and your eye color. You also had “system codes” to run your neurological sensory ...

Hyper-reflexia, measured as a decrease of low frequency-dependent depression of the H-reflex, is known to occur in both humans and animals after spinal cord injury (SCI). Previous studies have shown ...