@article{03318434e3d94a22892f994fad454520,
title = "Genetic and environmental influences on emotion-modulated startle reflex: A twin study",
abstract = "Emotion-modulated startle reflex is an important indicator of traitlike differences in affective processing implicated in the biological basis of personality and psychopathology. This study examined heritability of startle modulation by affective pictures in 66 pairs of monozygotic and 57 pairs of dizygotic female twins. Consistent with previous studies, startle magnitude was significantly influenced by emotional valence of the picture (positive",
keywords = "Affective pictures, Emotion, Heritability, Startle reflex, Twins",
author = "Anokhin, {Andrey P.} and Simon Golosheykin and Heath, {Andrew C.}",
note = "Funding Information: Accepted November 24, 1992. Dr. Cohen is Director and Irving B. Harris Professor ofChild Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, and Dr. Leckman is the Neison Harris Professor ofChildPsychiatryandPediatrics, ChildStudyCenter, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Portions ofthisarticle were presented byDr. Cohen at the Twenty-seventh Annual Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital Award Lecture in Memory of EdwardA. Strecker, MD., in November 1990 and by Dr. Leckman at the Second International Scientific Symposium on Tourette's Syndrome in June of 1991. The order ofthe authorship is arbitrary. This work is supported in part by grants MH49351, MH44843, and MH30929 from the National Institute ofMental Health, grants NS16648, HD03008, RR06022, and RR00125from the NationalInstitutes ofHealth, the Tourette Syndrome Association, and the Gatepost Foundation. Theauthors wouldlike to acknowledge the contributions ofDrs. David L. Pauls, Kenneth K Kidd,MarkA. Riddle, Robert A. King, Bradley S. Peterson, and Ms. Sharon L Ort,Mr. Lawrence Scahill, and Ms. Maureen McSwigganHardin to this work. ReprintrequeststoeitherDr.CohenorDr.Leckman, ChildStudyCenter, Yale University School ofMedicine, P.O. Box3333, New Haven, CT 06510 0890-8567/94/3301-0002$03.00/0{\textcopyright}1994 by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.",
year = "2007",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1111/j.1469-8986.2006.00486.x",
language = "English",
volume = "44",
pages = "106--112",
journal = "Psychophysiology",
issn = "0048-5772",
number = "1",
}