Quantification of the auditory startle reflex in children

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 424-430

  Bakker, Mirte J ^a   Boer, Frits ^a   van der Meer, Johan N ^a   Koelman, Johannes H T M ^a   Boerée, Thijs ^a   Bour, Lo ^a   Tijssen, Marina A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditory startle response; Blink response; Children; Human; Normative values; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS; ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STARTLE REFLEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DETERMINATION; STARTLE REFLEX; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 59149098653     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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