Spastic paralysis occurs when

a. descending excitatory pathways are destroyed.
b. excitatory inputs to motor neurons are unopposed because of disruption of an inhibitory system in the brain stem.
c. muscle spindles are destroyed.
d. the cerebellum is damaged.
e. the motor neurons are destroyed.


B

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