{"id":8455,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/moro_response\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:53","slug":"moro_response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/moro_response\/","title":{"rendered":"Moro response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PTz-iVI2mf4\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PTz-iVI2mf4?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spreading (abduction) of a newborn&#8217;s arms and fingers<\/a>&nbsp;(see figure below), followed by strong flexion (adduction) at the shoulder, after a sudden change in head or whole body position. &nbsp;It is assumed to be a labyrinthine reaction, but there is some debate about this as there is about whether the response is symmetrical or asymmetrical in healthy full term newborns. &nbsp;Named after the Slovakian pediatrician <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/15931526\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/15931526&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ernst Moro<\/a> (1874-1951).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Moro-response.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">The first part of a Moro response: abduction of arms and fingers. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"infantile_responses\">Infantile responses<\/a>, <a href=\"newborn\">Newborn<\/a>, <a href=\"reflex\">Reflex<\/a>, <a href=\"vestibular_labyrinths\">Vestibular labyrinths<\/a>, Vestibular system  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spreading (abduction) of a newborn&#8217;s arms and fingers&nbsp;(see figure below), followed by strong flexion (adduction) at the shoulder, after a sudden change in head or whole body position. &nbsp;It is assumed to be a labyrinthine reaction, but there is some debate about this as there is about whether the response is symmetrical or asymmetrical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/moro_response\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moro 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-8455","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\/8455","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=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}