Sensorimotor gating of the startle reflex can be assessed via measures of prepulse inhibition (PPI), which is the reduction in startle magnitude when the startling stimulus is preceded immediately by ...

To understand the expressive range of the human face, nothing beats watching a colleague scream his head off in slow motion. When my lab began to study protective reflexes in the early 2000s, the ...

The startle response, often recorded as an eye-blink reflex, is a defensive measure believed to reflect emotional processing. Patients with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) show abnormal startle-reflex ...

The acoustic startle response is an unconditional reflex manifested as a rapid contraction of facial and skeletal muscles in response to a sudden and intense startling stimulus. Translational research ...

Sabine Loeber, Bernhard Croissant, Helmut Nakovics, Anke Zimmer, Alexander Georgi, Sabine Klein, Carsten Diener, Andreas Heinz, Karl Mann, Herta Flor Psychotherapy ...

I’ve been reading a lot recently about the startle reflex as it applies to folks who suffer with panic disorder and agoraphobia. As you probably suspected, people diagnosed with this wretched curse ...

We all jump at an unexpected noise or touch, but in some people, this startle response is exaggerated, and can cause falls and even death. Now, researchers in the United Kingdom have found new genes ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered that the main purpose of the startle reflex -- the mechanism that makes people twitch at sudden loud noises -- is to protect the body against blows.

Humans are born with only two primal fears: falling and loud noises, research reveals. The fear of falling emerges early, demonstrated by infants' hesitation at 'visual cliffs.' The 'startle reflex' ...

You may have noticed your baby being startled or reacting suddenly when you're trying to put them down to sleep. This is the Moro reflex, one of several normal reflexes that healthy babies are born ...