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Brain 2005 128(2):235-236; doi:10.1093/brain/awh394
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Facial reflexes. By Eric Kugelberg (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Serafimerlasarettet, Stockholm, Sweden.) Brain 1952: 75; 385–396.

Kugelberg's paper was written to celebrate the 60th birthday of Professor Herbert Olivecrona. His starting position is that many different names had been used to describe reflex contractions of the facial musculature—depending on the area tapped, the muscles responding and the mechanisms considered to be involved. Broadly, his hypothesis is that these all described the same phenomenon; and most of the putative distinctions are artefacts arising from spurious transmission of the stimulus across bony structures in the face. Thus, winking in response to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alastair Compston

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