Startle Modification: Implications for Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Clinical Science

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Startle Modification: Implications for Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Clinical Science by Edited by Michael E. Dawson , Anne M. Schell , Andreas H. Bohmelt, 9780521580465
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  • ISBN: 9780521580465 | 0521580463
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 3/28/1999

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The startle response (response to a loud noise, for instance) is a reflex that is wired into the brain at a very basic level. Although everybody has such a reflex, the strength and quickness of the startle response is modified by a subject's underlying psychoneurological state. The nature of this modification, therefore, is now seen as an accurate, objective measure of very deep neurological processes. This book is the first comprehensive volume devoted to startle modification and offers a unique overview of the methods, measurement, physiology, and psychology of the phenomenon, particularly modification of the human startle eyeblink. Chapters are written by many of the world's leading investigators in the field and include coverage of elicitation and recording of startle blink, issues in measurement and quantification, the neurophysiological basis of the basic startle response and its modification by attentional and affective processes, psychological processes underlying short and long lead interval modification (including prepulse inhibition), applications of startle modification to the study of psychopathology, including schizophrenia, affective disorders, and psychopathy, developmental processes, and relationships with ERPs and behavioral measures of information processing. This book will be an invaluable reference for graduate students and researchers in cognitive science, clinical science, and neuroscience, including experimental psychologists, psychophysiologists, neuroscientists, biological psychiatrists, and clinical psychologists with research interests in psychopathology.
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