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Cardiac modulation of startle eye blink

As an alternative to interoceptive paradigms that depend on the participants' active cooperation, two studies are presented to show that startle methodology may be employed to study visceral afferent processing. The first study of 38 volunteers showed that startle responses were smaller when el...

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Published in:Psychophysiology 2009-03, Vol.46 (2), p.234-240
Main Authors: Schulz, André, Lass-Hennemann, Johanna, Nees, Frauke, Blumenthal, Terry D., Berger, Willi, Schachinger, Hartmut
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Language:English
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Summary:As an alternative to interoceptive paradigms that depend on the participants' active cooperation, two studies are presented to show that startle methodology may be employed to study visceral afferent processing. The first study of 38 volunteers showed that startle responses were smaller when elicited during cardiac systole as compared to diastole. In the second study, 31 diabetic patients were divided into two groups, having normal or diminished (
ISSN:0048-5772
1469-8986
1540-5958
DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00768.x