Greater general startle reflex is associated with greater anxiety levels: a correlational study on 111 young women [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015 Startle eyeblink reflex is a valid non-invasive tool for studying attention, emotion and psychiatric disorders. In the absence of any experimental manipulation, the general (or baseline) startle reflex shows a high inter-individual variability, which is ...
Eleonora ePoli, Alessandro eAngrilli
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Neural mechanisms of emotion-modulated startle reflexes: insights from ERP and EEG oscillations [PDF]
PeerJBackground The startle reflex is an involuntary response to a sudden, highly intense stimulus. Previous research has primarily focused on the early stages of the startle reflex, specifically examining the impact of emotional pictures on early responses ...
Fangfang Long, Lulu Hou, Renlai Zhou
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Diagnostic Dilemma in an Infant With Sound‐Triggered Motor Events: Reflex Epilepsy Versus Exaggerated Startle—A Case Report [PDF]
Clinical Case ReportsAuditory‐triggered motor events in infancy present a significant diagnostic challenge due to overlap between epileptic and non‐epileptic startle phenomena. We report the case of a term female infant with neonatal‐onset seizures and subsequent development
Aakash Pandit +5 more
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Reduced Prepulse Inhibition as a Biomarker of Schizophrenia [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016 The startle response is composed by a set of reflex behaviors intended to prepare the organism to face a potentially relevant stimulus. This response can be modulated by several factors as, for example, repeated presentations of the stimulus (startle ...
Luis Gonzalo De La Casa +5 more
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Darkness facilitates the acoustic startle reflex in humans
Biological Psychiatry, 1997 The effects of darkness on startle reactivity and prepulse inhibition were investigated in two studies with 25 subjects participating in each study. Acoustic startle stimuli that were or were not preceded by an acoustic prepulse were delivered in alternating periods of complete darkness or light.
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Prepulse Modulation of Auditory Startle Reflex with Different Stimulus Onset Asynchronies [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2018 Introduction: Startle reflex is measured by delivering a sensory stimulus and measuring eyelid closure in human beings to investigate the neurophysiology of information processing.
Nikhilesh Singh +2 more
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Affect-modulated startle: interactive influence of catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype and childhood trauma. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The etiology of emotion-related disorders such as anxiety or affective disorders is considered to be complex with an interaction of biological and environmental factors.
Benedikt Klauke +13 more
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Induction of enhanced acoustic startle response by noise exposure: dependence on exposure conditions and testing parameters and possible relevance to hyperacusis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 There has been a recent surge of interest in the development of animal models of hyperacusis, a condition in which tolerance to sounds of moderate and high intensities is diminished. The reasons for this decreased tolerance are likely multifactorial, but
Rony H Salloum +4 more
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Habituation of the C-start response in larval zebrafish exhibits several distinct phases and sensitivity to NMDA receptor blockade. [PDF]
, 2011 The zebrafish larva has been a valuable model system for genetic and molecular studies of development. More recently, biologists have begun to exploit the surprisingly rich behavioral repertoire of zebrafish larvae to investigate behavior.
Dearinger, Amanda D +8 more
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Additive effects of threat-of-shock and picture valence on startle reflex modulation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The present study examined the effects of sustained anticipatory anxiety on the affective modulation of the eyeblink startle reflex. Towards this end, pleasant, neutral and unpleasant pictures were presented as a continuous stream during alternating ...
Florian Bublatzky +4 more
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