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Blepharospasm

Known as: Blepharospasms, twitch eyelid, Eyelid twitching 
Excessive winking; tonic or clonic spasm of the orbicularis oculi muscle.
National Institutes of Health

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29 relations

Narrower (2)

Benign essential blepharospasmPARKINSON DISEASE 15, AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE (disorder)
Botulinum Toxin Type ACeruloplasmin deficiencyChoreoathetosisCyproheptadine

Broader (3)

Dystonia DisordersExtrapyramidal and movement disordersEyelid Diseases

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1979
1979
The eye blink as a time-locked response: implications for serial and second-order conditioning.
A series of experiments were conducted to determine what factors control responding to the first element of a two-element serial… 
1978
1978
Biofeedback treatment of blepharospasm with spasmodic torticollis.
Blepharospasm and torticollis are both uncommon conditions and they rarely occur in the same person. Blepharospasm may result… 
1963
1963
EFFECT OF A NUMBER OF ACQUISITION TRIALS AND THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF THE UCS ON EXTINCTION OF THE EYELID CR.
Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
An alternative criterion for the elimination of "voluntary" responses in eyelid conditioning.
1960
1960
Eyelid conditioning as a function of intensity of conditioned and unconditioned stimuli.
1959
1959
The relation between physiological measures of emotionality and performance in eyelid conditioning.
1959
1959
Performance in eyelid conditioning related to changes in muscular tension and physiological measures of emotionality.
1958
1958
UCS intensity and the associative (habit) strength of the eyelid CR.
1955
1955
Sodium amytal and eyelid conditioning.
The two main hypotheses of this pilot study would seem to be confirmed tentatively. These are (1) that intravenous sodium amytal… 
Highly Cited
1948
Highly Cited
1948
Eyelid conditioning as affected by verbally induced inhibitory set and counter reinforcement.