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 Moro reflex is a startle response in babies that makes their arms extend and retract. Newborns grow out of the Moro reflex within the first two months of life. The absence or extreme presence of ...

AM, where the ticking of the clock feels like a needleIn the dead silence of the living room, only the low hum of the refrigerator echoes. In your arms, a tiny life is breathing softly and peacefully.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the present study, we investigated whether mice lacking the arginine vasopressin (AVP) V1b receptor (V1bR) exhibit deficits of prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the startle reflex, reminiscent of the ...

Political views are often so staunchly held that one wonders whether they aren’t hardwired in a person’s genes. Indeed, in the past, studies of twins have suggested that DNA may play a role in ...