On the waveform of the acoustic startle blink in the paradigm of prepulse inhibition - Methodological and physiological aspects

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-27

  Meincke, Ulrich ^a,b   Light, Gregory A ^a   Geyer, Mark A ^a   Braff, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blink reflex; Electromyography; Orbicularis oculi muscle; Prepulse inhibition; Startle reflex

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTICITY; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BLINKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 21344443466     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086174     Document Type: Article

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