Prestimulus modification of the startle reflex: relationship to personality and physiological markers of dopamine function

Prestimulus Effects on Human Startle Reflex in Normals and Schizophrenics

1978 • 1,173 citations

The More or Less Startling Effects of Weak Prestimulation

1975 • 1,113 citations

Neural circuit regulation of prepulse inhibition of startle in the rat: current knowledge and future challenges

2001 • 1,048 citations

Selective activation of the mesocortical DA system by stress

1976 • 1,037 citations

The Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire: U.S. Normative Data

1991 • 984 citations

Assessing the Validity of an Animal Model of Deficient Sensorimotor Gating in Schizophrenic Patients

1994 • 702 citations

Dopaminergic stimulation disrupts sensorimotor gating in the rat

1988 • 609 citations

Using an Animal Model of Deficient Sensorimotor Gating to Study the Pathophysiology and New Treatments of Schizophrenia

1998 • 608 citations

The acoustic startle response in rats—circuits mediating evocation, inhibition and potentiation

1997 • 510 citations

Sensorimotor gating in boys with Tourette's syndrome and ADHD: Preliminary results

1996 • 396 citations

Central dopamine hyperactivity in rats mimics abnormal acoustic startle response in schizophrenics

1986 • 341 citations

D2 and D4 dopamine receptor polymorphisms and personality

1998 • 289 citations

Changes in sensorimotor inhibition across the menstrual cycle: Implications for neuropsychiatric disorders

1997 • 255 citations

Association between tridimensional personality questionnaire (TPQ) traits and three functional polymorphisms: dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4), serotonin transporter promoter region (5-HTTLPR) and catechol O-methyltransferase (COMT)

2000 • 198 citations

Spontaneous Blink Rates Correlate with Dopamine Levels in the Caudate Nucleus of MPTP-Treated Monkeys

1999 • 196 citations

Additional evidence for an association between the dopamine D4 receptor (D4DR) exon III repeat polymorphism and the human personality trait of Novelty Seeking

1997 • 142 citations

“Normal” personality correlates of sensorimotor, cognitive, and visuospatial gating

1995 • 136 citations

Blink rates and disorders of movement

1984 • 132 citations

Differential effects of direct and indirect dopamine agonists on eye blink rate in cynomolgus monkeys.

1996 • 128 citations

Deficient Sensorimotor Gating After 6‐Hydroxydopamine Lesion of the Rat medial Prefrontal Cortex is Reversed by Haloperidol

1994 • 128 citations

Association between the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) exon III polymorphism and measures of Novelty Seeking in a German population

1999 • 124 citations

Eye blink and schizophrenia: psychosis or tardive dyskinesia?

1978 • 121 citations

D1 and D2 dopamine receptors independently regulate spontaneous blink rate in the vervet monkey.

1991 • 118 citations

Apomorphine‐induced blinking and yawning in healthy volunteers.

1990 • 112 citations

Stable parkinsonian syndrome and uneven loss of striatal dopamine fibres following chronic MPTP administration in baboons

1993 • 105 citations

Personality factors moderate subjective and psychophysiological responses to d-amphetamine in humans.

1999 • 100 citations

Sensory Modulation of the Blink Reflex in Patients With Blepharospasm

1998 • 97 citations

Blink Rates in Schizophrenia

1990 • 96 citations

Effect of d -amphetamine on prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex in humans

1999 • 95 citations

Physiology of normal and abnormal blinking.

1988 • 93 citations

Allelic variants of dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) and serotonin receptor 5HT2c (HTR2c) and temperament factors: Replication tests

1999 • 88 citations

Personality factors moderate subjective and psychophysiological responses to d-amphetamine in humans.

1999 • 81 citations

Amphetamine Effects on Prepulse Inhibition Across-Species: Replication and Parametric Extension

2002 • 81 citations

Blink rates in parkinsonism

1982 • 81 citations

MPTP lesions and dopaminergic drugs alter eye blink rate in African green monkeys

1991 • 77 citations

Parkinson's disease, personality, and dopamine

1990 • 70 citations

Disturbances of ocular movements and blinking in schizophrenia.

1978 • 60 citations

Personality traits in young patients with Parkinson's disease

2001 • 57 citations

Increased blink rate in drug-naive acute schizophrenic patients

1990 • 47 citations

Drug effect on blink rates in rhesus monkeys: preliminary studies.

1981 • 46 citations

Prepulse effects on magnitude estimation of startle-eliciting stimuli and startle responses

1996 • 46 citations

Effects of amantadine and bromocriptine on startle and sensorimotor gating: parametric studies and cross-species comparisons

2002 • 41 citations

The D1 receptor antagonist, SCH 23390, induces signs of parkinsonism in African green monkeys

1991 • 35 citations

Lack of association between a polymorphism in the promoter region of the dopamine D2 receptor and personality traits

2001 • 35 citations

NPC 15669 enhances survival and reverses leukopenia in endotoxin-treated mice

1991 • 34 citations

Blink rate in childhood-onset schizophrenia: Comparison with normal and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder controls

1996 • 32 citations

Blink rate in childhood schizophrenia spectrum disorder

1994 • 24 citations

Clinical physiology of dopa dyskinesia.

2000 • 16 citations

An electroencephalographic study comparing maximum blink rates in schizophrenic and nonschizophrenic psychiatric patients and nonpsychiatric control subjects

1998 • 13 citations

Drug screening in “normal” controls

1995 • 11 citations

Clinicopathological Study of Patients with Intradural Extramedullary Spinal Tumours and Surgical Outcome

2018 • 1 citations