Decorticate posturing is a specific body position that signals brain damage. Someone with decorticate posturing can’t control it. Decorticate posturing needs immediate medical attention. Decorticate ...
John P. Conomy, M.D., and Michael Swash, M.B., B.S. Reversible decerebrate and decorticate postures ordinarily indicate advanced and irreversible disease of the brain, but in three patients these ...
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 ...