Influence of age and gender on the jaw-stretch and blink reflexes

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 530-540

  Peddireddy, Anitha ^a   Wang, Kelun ^a   Svensson, Peter ^a,b   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age differences; Blink reflex; Gender differences; Jaw stretch reflex; Trigeminal brainstem reflexes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAW MOVEMENT; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLINKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; REFLEX, STRETCH; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33744797385     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0300-y     Document Type: Article

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