This vascular change represents an accentuated physiologic vasomotor response that disappears with increasing age, although it is sometimes discernible even in older children.
Many of his publications dealt with the physiological side of neurology, and he is remembered for research involving the vasomotor centers of the brain.
The medulla contains the cardiac, respiratory, vomiting and vasomotor centers and so deals with the autonomic (involuntary) functions of breathing, heart rate and blood pressure.
