Exaggerated startle reactions

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-44

  Dreissen, Yasmine E M ^a   Bakker, Mirte J ^a   Koelman, Johannes H T M ^a   Tijssen, Marina A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Culture specific startle; Hyperekplexia; Neurophysiology; Startle reflex; Startle syndromes

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; GEPHYRIN; GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

ANXIETY DISORDER; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOREARM; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPEREKPLEXIA; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOTIVATION; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NONSENSE MUTATION; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENT DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY GATING; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE EPILEPSY; STARTLE REFLEX; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URINE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; RATS; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 84655175064     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.09.022     Document Type: Review

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