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Reflex, Moro

Known as: Moro Reflex, Startle Reflex, reflex startle 
A reflex found in normal infants, observed when the infant is startled or feels the sensation of falling and characterized by sudden extension of the… 
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Perinatal TerminologyReflex, AcousticReflex, Orbicularis OculiReflex, Startle

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Reflex actionReflex motion descriptor

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Review
2008
Review
2008
Neurobehavioral toxicology of pyrethroid insecticides in adult animals: a critical review.
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Emotion in criminal offenders with psychopathy and borderline personality disorder.
BACKGROUND Criminal offenders with a diagnosis of psychopathy or borderline personality disorder (BPD) share an impulsive nature… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
The psychological significance of human startle eyeblink modification: a review
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Startle reflex and emotion modulation impairment after a right amygdala lesion.
In the present study, startle responses during resting states as well as during the presentation of a set of emotive slides were… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Involvement of the central nucleus and basolateral complex of the amygdala in fear conditioning measured with fear-potentiated startle in rats trained concurrently with auditory and visual…
The goal of this work was to test the involvement of the central nucleus and basolateral complex of the amygdala in fear… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Baseline and fear-potentiated startle in panic disorder patients
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Startle gating deficits occur across prepulse intensities in schizophrenic patients
Review
1991
Review
1991
New observations on the normal auditory startle reflex in man.
The latency and pattern of muscle recruitment in the startle response elicited by unexpected auditory stimulation was determined… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Affective individual differences and startle reflex modulation.
Potentiation of startle has been demonstrated in experimentally produced aversive emotional states, and clinical reports suggest… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
Pharmacological and anatomical analysis of fear conditioning using the fear-potentiated startle paradigm.
Pharmacological and anatomical analysis of fear conditioning using the fear-potentiated startle paradigm are reviewed. This test… 
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