RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The acoustic startle reflex in stiff‐man syndrome
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 1952
OP 1952
DO 10.1212/WNL.44.10.1952
VO 44
IS 10
A1 Joseph Y. Matsumoto
A1 John N. Caviness
A1 Kathleen M. McEvoy
YR 1994
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/44/10/1952.abstract
AB We studied the EMG response to loud noise in eight patients with stiff-man syndrome (SMS). Audiogenic muscle jerks originated in the acoustic startle reflex. Patients demonstrated excessive, poorly habituating motor activity predominately in axial and leg muscles. Exaggerated startle in SMS probably reflects segmental hyperexcitability of axial and lumbar spinal motor neurons.