Frequent spontaneous eyeblink activity associated with reduced conjunctival surface (trigeminal nerve) tractile sensitivity

Michael Doughty; Taher Naase; Norman F. Button

doi:10.1007/s00417-008-1028-8

Frequent spontaneous eyeblink activity associated with reduced conjunctival surface (trigeminal nerve) tractile sensitivity

Michael Doughty, Taher Naase, Norman F. Button

Vision Sciences

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Abstract

A number of recent studies have reported high spontaneous eyeblink rate (SEBR) values in apparently normal subjects, but the reasons for this are unclear. An assessment was made of SEBR, in 60 educated adult male subjects aged between 22 and 40 years, over a period of 5 min in silence. Half of the subjects were classified as having frequent eyeblink activity. All subjects also had their corneal and conjunctival touch (tactile) sensitivity assessed with a Cochet-Bonnet aesthesiometer immediately after the video recording of SEBR.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	939-946
Number of pages	8
Journal	Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Volume	247
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-008-1028-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2009

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eyeblink activity
optometry
vision sciences

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Frequent spontaneous eyeblink activity associated with reduced conjunctival surface (trigeminal nerve) tractile sensitivity

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