postural fixation

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postural fixation

Neurology The loss of anticipatory and compensatory righting reflexes, resulting in the inability to make appropriate postural adjustments to involuntary movements of the trunk. limbs and head; PF is lost early in supranuclear ophthalmoplegia and late in Parkinson's disease, and is attributed to defects in the globus pallidus

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