Decorticate posturing — a sign of severe damage to the brain — is a specific type of involuntary abnormal posturing of a person. Decorticate posture is stiff with legs held out straight, fists ...
John P. Conomy, M.D., and Michael Swash, M.B., B.S. Reversible decerebrate and decorticate postures ordinarily indicate advanced and irreversible disease of the brain, but in three patients these ...