Furthermore, the reflexes which are functional will be hyperreactive (and therefore very accentuated) due to the removal of inhibiting higher- brain centers (e.g. the facilitatory area of the reticular formation will not receive regulating input from cerebellum, basal ganglia and the cortex).
Decerebration describes the ligation along the neural axis in distinct parts of the brain in experimental animals.
With difference to decortication there is pontine transection, thus sparing of the VestibuloSpinal (VS) and ReticuloSpinal (RES).
[1] The most obvious accentuation is seen in the tonic labyrinthine reflexes, the otolithic organs mediate input about the gravitational force exerted on the body and the labyrinthine reflex acts on the extensor muscles in order to resist this gravitational force.
In humans, true decerebrate rigidity is rare since the damage to the brain centers it might be caused by usually are lethal.