Fear appears fast: Temporal course of startle reflex potentiation in animal fearful subjects

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 66-75

  Globisch, Jutta ^d   Hamm, Alfons O ^c   Esteves, Francisco ^a   Öhman, Arne ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Fear; Phobia; Prepulse inhibition; Skin conductance; Startle eyeblink

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0032899151     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577299970634     Document Type: Article

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