Cardiopulmonary baroreceptors affect reflexive startle eye blink

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 587-593

  Richter, S ^a   Schulz, A ^a   Port, J ^b   Blumenthal, T D ^c   Schachinger H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle reflex; Arterial baroreceptors; Cardiopulmonary baroreceptors; Lower body negative pressure; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; R WAVE; RESPONSE TIME; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINKING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; PRESSORECEPTORS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PULMONARY ARTERY; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71549153224     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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