Motor Dysfunction

Question 1

Interference with voluntary movements and weakness or paralysis on the contralateral side of the body

Answer 1

Damage to upper motor neurons

Question 2

Weakness or paralysis on the same side of the body and at and below the level of spinal cord damage

Answer 2

Damage to lower motor neurons

Question 3

Severe brain damage

Answer 3

Decorticate (A) and decerebrate (B-D) posturing