Neurologische Befunde (insbesondere „Entwicklungsreflexe“) bei über 75 jährigen Altenheimbewohnern

✍ Scribed by O. Hildenhagen; R. Schiffter

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 677 KB
• Volume: 213
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-5354
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00313274

✦ Synopsis

86 residents of several homes for the aged in Berlin, aged 75 to 96 years (mean age 86.3 years), were examined neurologically. Many showed the following aberrant neurological signs: Pallaesthesia and dermolexia were extinct in the lower extremities; the ankle jerks could not be elicited; the palmomental, orbicularis oris reflex, grasping and the snout reflexes were positive; there was a hypokinetic-hypertonic motor syndrome. The statistical analyses and the follow-up dynamics of our findings argue for such age-dependent changes of the CNS as the basis for the grasping and snout reflexes and for the involuntary movements of the elderly.