Human beings are born with innate reflexes that come from deep within our primitive brain. As the prefrontal cortex develops within the first year of life these reflexes disappear from the central ...

Newborn babies arrive with a surprising set of built-in survival tools — reflexes that help them breathe, feed, and cling to caregivers. These primitive reflexes reveal how the developing brain works.

The Moro reflex is a startle response in babies that makes their arms extend and retract. Newborns grow out of the Moro reflex within the first two months of life. The absence or extreme presence of ...