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The progress and prospect of prepulse inhibition in autism / 生理学报
Acta Physiologica Sinica ; (6): 730-738, 2014.
Article in Chinese | WPRIM | ID: wpr-255980
ABSTRACT
Prepulse inhibition (PPI) is suppression of the startle reflex when an intense startling stimulus is preceded by a weaker sensory stimulus (the prepulse). It is an operational measurement of sensorimotor gating mechanism to help human adapt to complex environment. This weak prepulse protect central cognitive processing by damping the effect of intense stimuli. Autistics cannot select out behaviorally important information from a lot of irrelevant resources and reflect abnormal gating mechanism and attentional abnormalities. Previous studies have not made agreement on whether autistic patients demonstrated deficits in PPI, because the results depend on age, sex, severity of the disease as well as the experimental parameters used. Moreover, these studies have not covered whether autistics have suffered deficits in higher-order processing. In this review, the "top-down" modulation of selective attention and subjective emotion are introduced into the PPI experiment. We also introduce fear conditioning and perceived spatial separation paradigm to further explore the interaction between autistic cognitive process and gating mechanism.
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Full text: Available Index: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Attention / Autistic Disorder / Reflex, Startle / Fear / Prepulse Inhibition Limits: Humans Language: Chinese Journal: Acta Physiologica Sinica Year: 2014 Type: Article

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Full text: Available Index: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Attention / Autistic Disorder / Reflex, Startle / Fear / Prepulse Inhibition Limits: Humans Language: Chinese Journal: Acta Physiologica Sinica Year: 2014 Type: Article