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RESULTS<br />
L UNILATERAL BABINSKI SIGNS<br />
Homogeneity of the group<br />
The various findings in all 50 patients with a Babinski sign are shown in<br />
table XVI. The results for the muscles that move rhe foot are considered<br />
separately under the headings weakness, skill, tone and tendon jerks. For<br />
the eight patients with a (presumably) spinal lesion the profile on the side<br />
with the Babinski response did not appreciably deviate from that in the 42<br />
patients with cerebral pathology, but this does not rule out some differences<br />
if more patients with spinal lesions could have been included. It was<br />
especially in the spinal group that motor impairment occurred on the<br />
control side (proximal weakness in two, paralysis in one). It must be<br />
emphasized in general that the contralateral side was not necessarily<br />
normal - ir only did not show a Babinski response and was therefore<br />
interesting for comparison.<br />
To investigate the effect of time in this sample, the 42 patients with<br />
cerebral lesions were divided into two groups, according to whether the<br />
illness had lasted less than four weeks (19 patients) or longer (23 patients).<br />
On comparison, hypotonia occurred significantly more often in the acute<br />
group (10/19 versus 1/23; Fisher test: p
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