Fear conditioned potentiation of the acoustic blink reflex in patients with cerebellar lesions

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 358-364

  Maschke, Matthias ^a   Drepper, Johannes ^a   Kindsvater, Kerstin ^a   Kolb, Florian P ^b   Diener, Hans Christoph ^a   Timmann, Dagmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic blink reflex; Associative learning; Cerebellum; Fear conditioned potentiation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LIGHT; MALE; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLINKING; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CHILD; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES;

EID: 0034013602     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.68.3.358     Document Type: Article

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