Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT), which forces use of the impaired arm following unilateral stroke, promotes functional recovery in the clinic but animal models of CIMT have yielded mixed ...

Orthostatic hypertension—a rise in blood pressure upon assuming upright posture—is an underappreciated and understudied clinical phenomenon. There is currently no widely agreed-upon definition of ...

LET us revert now to the reflex “standing” exhibited by the decerebrate animal. We traced it to a postural contraction of the antigravity muscles, in each of which the contraction was due to a ...

Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system due to the death of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra of the brain. While tremor at rest, bradykinesia, ...

In this study a 21-gauge disposable scalp-vein needle filled with heparin was inserted into the right brachial artery. In 80 subjects changes in pulse and diastolic pressures occurring during and ...

When each of us sits down, we navigate our feet to a position that feels comfortable, even if the seat we are in is uncomfortable. What we may not realize is that how we position our feet may affect ...

Crossing your legs is such a common gesture that we hardly pay attention to it anymore. Yet, behind this seemingly banal reflex lie social codes, gender norms, and health impacts. A learned reflex, ...