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. 1989 Summer;1(3):305-7.
doi: 10.1176/jnp.1.3.305.

Habituation of the startle reflex in posttraumatic stress disorder

R J Ross  1 , W A Ball, M E Cohen, S M Silver, A R Morrison, D F Dinges
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Habituation of the startle reflex in posttraumatic stress disorder

R J Ross et al. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1989 Summer.

Abstract

The authors investigated habituation of the eye-blink component of the startle reflex to repeated affectively neutral tactile and auditory stimuli in nine subjects with posttraumatic stress disorder and nine controls. Each group showed rapid habituation in both tactile and auditory modalities.

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