Telemetric Monitoring of the Reflex Blink Rate

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Drinkwater ◽  
M. Marilyn Flint
Keyword(s):  
Action Potentials ◽  
Blink Rate ◽  
Muscle Action ◽  
Facial Movements ◽  
Reflex Blink ◽  
Reliability Coefficients

A technique for using telemetry to transmit the muscle action potentials of the eyeblink to a biological recorder is described in detail. Samples of oscillograph recordings are included to illustrate the patterns obtained from a variety of facial movements. Considering the high objectivity and reliability coefficients obtained, this procedure is recommended to those interested in using the blink rate as an experimental variable.

Latency of compound muscle action potentials of the anal sphincter after magnetic sacral stimulation

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 1232-1235 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.L. Morren ◽  
S. Walter ◽  
H. Lindehammar ◽  
O. Hallböök ◽  
R. Sjödahl
Keyword(s):  
Anal Sphincter ◽  
Action Potentials ◽  
Muscle Action ◽  
Compound Muscle Action Potentials ◽  
Sacral Stimulation

Mapping the Compound Muscle Action Potentials of Cricothyroid Muscle Using Electromyography in Thyroid Operations

2009 ◽  
Vol 250 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Selvan ◽  
Srinivasa Babu ◽  
M J. Paul ◽  
Deepak Abraham ◽  
Prasanna Samuel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Potentials ◽  
Muscle Action ◽  
Cricothyroid Muscle ◽  
Compound Muscle Action Potentials

Variations in Skin Resistance and Their Relationship to G.S.R. Conditioning

1960 ◽  
Vol 106 (442) ◽  
pp. 281-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Martin
Keyword(s):  
Action Potentials ◽  
Background Activity ◽  
Skin Resistance ◽  
Muscle Action ◽  
Muscle Tonus ◽  
Experimental Procedure ◽  
Discontinuous Nature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Neural Excitation ◽  
Set Up

Any particular system which is being conditioned is likely to maintain a certain level of background activity throughout the experimental procedure; either of a discontinuous nature, as, for example, with eyeblink, heart rate and respiratory cycle, or continuously, as in the case of basal skin resistance and muscle tonus. This background activity or level of arousal does not remain constant but usually varies in time, presumably as a result of underlying neural excitation or inhibition. It may increase throughout an experiment if the subject becomes highly motivated, as with the gradients of muscle action potentials observed by Bartoshuk (1955), or decrease, if the subject becomes more relaxed and familiar with the set-up, as Duffy and Lacey (1946) found with level of skin conductance.

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