In 1973, Stockdale was finally released and returned to the U.S., where he was reunited with Sybil. They would go on to pen a co-memoir together, In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal During the Vietnam Years, which became a national best seller and a successful made-for-television movie.
People with startle disease have an exaggerated startle reflex in response to noise and touch, followed by muscle stiffness, which can cause breathing problems and even sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).iew full size image. We all jump at an unexpected noise or touch, but in some people, this startle response is exaggerated, and can cause falls and even death. Now, researchers in the United Kingdom have found new genes for this rare disorder, known as startle disease, or more formally as hyperekplexia.
Tickling is the act of touching a part of a body in a way that causes involuntary twitching movements or laughter. The word tickle evolved from the Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly. The idiom tickled pink means to be pleased or delighted. In 1897, psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin described a tickle as two different types of phenomena. One type is caused by very light movement across the skin. This type of tickle, called a knismesis, gene