"Prepulse Inhibition" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A neurophysiological phenomenon in which the response to a startling stimulus (pulse) is decreased when a weaker prestimulus (prepulse) precedes it closely in time. It is used as an operational measure of sensorimotor gating.
| Descriptor ID |
D065808
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G11.561.794.500
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Prepulse Inhibition" by people in Profiles.
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Pharmacological Rescue of Hippocampal Fear Learning Deficits in Fragile X Syndrome. Mol Neurobiol. 2018 Jul; 55(7):5951-5961.
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Loss of promoter IV-driven BDNF expression impacts oscillatory activity during sleep, sensory information processing and fear regulation. Transl Psychiatry. 2016 08 23; 6(8):e873.
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Upregulation of GSK3? Contributes to Brain Disorders in Elderly REG?-knockout Mice. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016 Apr; 41(5):1340-9.