{"id":7345,"date":"2019-05-22T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/babinski_response\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:52","slug":"babinski_response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/babinski_response\/","title":{"rendered":"Babinski response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extension of the big toe upward and the spreading out of the other toes when the external portion of the newborn&#8217;s foot is stroked from the back of the heel to base of the toes (see figure below). &nbsp;Absent when there is damage to the lower spinal cord. &nbsp;First reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whonamedit.com\/doctor.cfm\/370.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.whonamedit.com\/doctor.cfm\/370.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fran\u00e7ois F. Babinsk<\/a>i (1857-1932) in 1896 as &#8216;reflex butane plantaire&#8217; (cutaneous plantar reflex) although there is evidence that it is portrayed in the paintings of Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and Raphael (1483-1520). &nbsp;If the response can &nbsp;still be elicited in a child over two who performs toe walking 90% of time, it has been suggested that doing so at this age indicate autism. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image029.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; \">Eliciting the Babinski response<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left; \">See Digitigrade locomotion, Newborn, Plantigrade locomotion, Reflex<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extension of the big toe upward and the spreading out of the other toes when the external portion of the newborn&#8217;s foot is stroked from the back of the heel to base of the toes (see figure below). &nbsp;Absent when there is damage to the lower spinal cord. &nbsp;First reported by Fran\u00e7ois F. Babinski (1857-1932) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/babinski_response\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Babinski response&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}