May 11, 2012 (San Antonio, Texas) — Pediatricians detect ocular disease in infants and children using the red reflex exam, but does it underestimate the presence of that disease? That's what ...

Pulling your hand away from a hot object, blinking because it's very bright or kicking when someone taps the tendon below your kneecap - these are all innate reflex actions. They happen rapidly, you ...

Researchers found that children who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with severe autism are hypersensitive to the motion of head turning. Scientists in California have linked the ...

In your first moments with your newborn, you likely already saw their reflexes. The ones you might’ve noticed right away were the reflexes that help your baby eat, such as the rooting reflex or the ...

A South Korean study suggests that the loss of the corneal reflex — the automatic blink when the eye is touched — may signal a 70% likelihood of death within 24 hours in deeply sedated hospice ...