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Reflex action

Known as: Reflexes, Reflex Finding, reflexed 
An involuntary movement or exercise of function in a part, excited in response to a stimulus applied to the periphery and transmitted to the brain or… 
National Institutes of Health

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Nervous System Physiological PhenomenaNeurophysiology - biologic functionPhysiology

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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Human balancing of an inverted pendulum: is sway size controlled by ankle impedance?
1 Using the ankle musculature, subjects balanced a large inverted pendulum. The equilibrium of the pendulum is unstable and quasi… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Postural modulation of the soleus H reflex in young and old subjects.
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Attention and schizophrenia: impaired modulation of the startle reflex.
The startle reflex (SR) elicited by abrupt stimuli can be modified by attention to nonstartling stimuli that shortly precede the… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Inhibition of monosynaptic reflexes in the human lower limb.
1. Presynaptic inhibition of muscle spindle Ia afferents by afferents from the same and other muscles has been studied in the… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Responses to head tilt in cat central vestibular neurons. I. Direction of maximum sensitivity.
Responses to head tilt were recorded from vestibular neurons in and around the lateral vestibular nucleus (LVN) of the… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Facilitatory transmitter causes a selective and prolonged increase in adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate in sensory neurons mediating the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex in Aplysia
Sensitization of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex in the marine mollusc, Aplysia california, is a simple form of learning… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Cutaneous reflexes in small muscles of the hand
A study has been made of the responses of motoneurones innervating small muscles of the hand to electrical and mechanical… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Pyramidal tract effects on interneurons in the cat lumbar dorsal horn.
IN HIGHER MAMMALS many cells of the cerebral cytoarchitectonic features; the dorsal horn cortex can directly influence spinal… 
Highly Cited
1956
Highly Cited
1956
Tonic and phasic ventral horn cells differentiated by post-tetanic potentiation in cat extensors.
Summary. In decerebrate cats stretch reflexes from the ankle extensors have been studied in 100 fibres from dissected ventral… 
Highly Cited
1942
Highly Cited
1942
The mask of sanity.
Psychotic disorders may be concealed behind outer manifestations that give little or no suggestion of anything so serious. The… 
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