Is Decorticate Posturing Reversible

Through animal models and human studies it has been shown that the vestibulospinal tract plays a major role in decerebrate posturing.

Is decorticate posturing reversible. Our patient presented with a mild degree of hepatic encephalopathy which rapidly progressed to coma with decerebrate posturing. Decorticate posture is stiff with legs held out straight fists clenched and arms bent to hold the hands on the chest. Though decerebrate posturing implies a destructive structural lesion it can also be caused by reversible metabolic disturbances such as hypoglycemia and hepatic encephalopathy.

Decorticate posturing is a type of abnormal or pathologic posturing not to. Abstract reversible decerebrate and decorticate postures ordinarily indicate advanced and irreversible disease of the brain but in three patients these postures were a presenting feature of.