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Automatic, involuntary response to a stimulus
In biology, a reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary, unplanned sequence or action and nearly instantaneous response to a stimulus. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ReflexA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Manipulation of the inflammatory reflex as a therapeutic strategyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: A Short Course in PhotographyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The inflammatory reflexCited 3,291 times
- Go sideways: Stretch reflexA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Reflex arcA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
Noun The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
Noun The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
Noun The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The inflammatory reflex
Emotion, attention, and the startle reflex.
The reflex arc concept in psychology.
Reflex control of immunity
Flexion‐reflex of the limb, crossed extension‐reflex, and reflex stepping and standing
Locomotion in vertebrates: central mechanisms and reflex interaction
The vagus nerve and the inflammatory reflex—linking immunity and metabolism
Myogenic potentials generated by a click-evoked vestibulocollic reflex.
🆕 Influential since 2022
Manipulation of the inflammatory reflex as a therapeutic strategy
Cardioneuroablation for Reflex Syncope
Vagal sensory neurons mediate the Bezold–Jarisch reflex and induce syncope
Dual sensing signal decoupling based on tellurium anisotropy for VR interaction and neuro-reflex system application
An artificial visual nerve for mimicking pupil reflex
📚 Books worth reading
A Short Course in PhotographyBarbara London, Barbara London · 1979
Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For DummiesRobert Correll · 2010- 📕DSLR CinemaKurt Lancaster · 2013
The integrative action of the nervous systemSherrington, Charles Scott Sir · 1906
Reflex testing methods for evaluating C.N.S. developmentMary R. Fiorentino · 1963
Magic Lantern GuidesSimon Stafford · 2006
Psychology of learning and behaviorBarry Schwartz, Edward A. Wasserman · 1978
The orienting response in information processingEugene N. Sokolov, Heikki Lyytinen · 2002
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🔗 Related topics
- Stretch reflex The stretch reflex (myotatic reflex), or more accurately muscle stretch reflex, is a muscle contraction in response to stretching a muscle. The function…
- Reflex arc A reflex arc is a neural pathway that controls a reflex. In vertebrates, most sensory neurons synapse in the spinal cord and the signal then travels through…
- Golgi tendon reflex The Golgi tendon reflex (also called inverse stretch reflex, autogenic inhibition, tendon reflex) is an inhibitory effect on the muscle resulting from…
- Golgi tendon organ The Golgi tendon organ (GTO) (also known as Golgi organ, tendon organ, neurotendinous organ or neurotendinous spindle) is a skeletal muscle stretch receptor…
- Spinal interneuron A spinal interneuron, found in the spinal cord, relays signals between (afferent) sensory neurons, and (efferent) motor neurons. Different classes of spinal…
- Patellar reflex The patellar reflex, also called the knee reflex or knee-jerk, is a stretch reflex which tests the L2, L3, and L4 segments of the spinal cord. Many animals…
- Somatic nervous system The somatic nervous system (SNS), also known as voluntary nervous system, is a part of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) that links brain and spinal…
- Vestibulospinal tract The vestibulospinal tract is a nerve tract in the central nervous system. Specifically, it is a component of the extrapyramidal system and is classified…