Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment (Feb 2022)
Research Progress in the Study of Startle Reflex to Disease States
Abstract
Junfeng Zhang,1,2 Meng Wang,1 Baoyu Wei,3 Jiangwei Shi,1 Tao Yu1 1First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300380, People’s Republic of China; 2National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, 300380, People’s Republic of China; 3State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Tao Yu, Email [email protected]: The startle reflex is considered a primitive physiological reflex, a defense response that occurs in the organism when the body feels sudden danger and uneasiness, characterized by habituation and sensitization effects, and studies on the startle reflex often deal with pre-pulse inhibition (PPI) and sensorimotor gating. Under physiological conditions, the startle reflex is stable at a certain level, and when the organism is in a pathological state, such as stroke, spinal cord injury, schizophrenia, and other diseases, the reflex undergoes a series of changes, making it closely related to the progress of disease. This paper summarizes the startle reflex in physiological and pathological states by reviewing the databases of PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, China Biology Medicine, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodical, Wanfang Data, and identifies and analyzes the startle reflex and excessive startle reaction disorder.Keywords: startle reflex, disease, hyperekplexia, review
