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  • noun pathology A neurological disorder characterized by an exaggerated startle response in situations of distress.

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  • GABA and glycine transporters in hyperekplexia/startle disease and epilepsy (see Rees et al.,

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  • an exaggerated startle response

    January 28, 2008

  • Mrs yarb suffers from this, it's very funny but oaccasionally alarming.

    January 29, 2008