Familial Startle Disease (Hyperexplexia)
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 41 (1) , 71-74
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1984.04050130077028
Abstract
• Six affected members from a family of 15 patients with familial startle disease (hyperexplexia) underwent extensive electrophysiologic evaluation. The most marked abnormality consisted of prominent C response 60 to 75 ms after median and peroneal nerve stimulation. The somatosensory evoked responses were also relatively high in amplitude. These findings suggest that hyperactive long-loop reflexes may constitute the physiologic basis of startle disease.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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