A patient with a severe head injury begins to assume a posture of flexed upper extremities, with plantar-flexed lower extremities. These assessments indicate:
1. increasing intracranial pressure with decorticate posturing.
2. decreasing intracranial pressure with decerebrate posturing.
3. decreasing intracranial pressure with decorticate posturing.
4. increasing intracranial pressure with decerebrate posturing.
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Increasing pressure on the tissue above the midbrain results in abnormal flexion (decorticate posturing).
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