The auditory startle response in post-traumatic stress disorder

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-6

  Siegelaar, S E ^a   Olff, M ^a   Bour, L J ^a   Veelo, D ^a   Zwinderman, A H ^a   Van Bruggen, G ^a   De Vries, G J ^a   Raabe, S ^a   Cupido, C ^a   Koelman, J H T M ^a   Tijssen, M A J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

PGR; Post traumatic stress disorder; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXAZEPAM; PAROXETINE; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33748375151     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0413-y     Document Type: Article

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