Severe aphasia, adult left hemispherectomy, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS), and
other neurological disorders have in common an increased use of swearwords. There are …

The normal human audiogenic startle reflex is defined from a review of the literature,
substantiated by a current investigation of normal subjects, and clarified …

The startle response to unexpected auditory and somaesthetic stimulation was studied in 8
patients with hereditary or symptomatic hyperekplexia. It was abnormal in its resistance to …

Startle disease is an autosomal dominant disorder with two phenotypic expressions. In the
major form, there is hypertonia in infancy, and later an insecure gait. The patients have …

The “Jumping Frenchmen of Maine” were described by George Beard in 1878. They had an
excessive startle response, sometimes with echolalia, echopraxia, or forced obedience. In …

Several recent studies have emphasized that serotonergic pathways in the CNS are
intimately involved in the modulation of motor behavior, and in the pathophysiology of …

A family is presented with hyperexplexia, a rare autosomal dominant neurological disorder.
Affected individuals manifest flexor hypertonia and hypokinesia during infancy. Later and …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the characteristics of latah in modern Indonesia; to determine
whether contemporary latah resembles the syndrome described in the nineteenth century; to …

Objective: To study the startle reflex and the effect of the startle reflex stimulus over reaction
time (start-react effect) in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS). Method: Ten GTS patients …

Information was accumulated by self-report questionnaire from 462 Canadian Tourette
syndrome (TS) patients. The mean age of onset of the syndrome was 7.4 years, while the …