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References from Effortful Eyelid Opening With Enhanced Mechanoreceptor Stretch in the Superior Tarsal Muscle Accelerates Inferred Microsaccade Frequency and Velocity, Exacerbating Reflexive Frequent Blinking: A Report of Two Cases. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Stretching of the Mueller muscle results in involuntary contraction of the levator muscle
10.1097/00002341-200201000-00002 · 2002 · External reference
Reflexive contraction of the levator palpebrae superioris muscle to involuntarily sustain the effective eyelid retraction through the transverse trigeminal proprioceptive nerve on the proximal Mueller's muscle: verification with evoked electromyography
10.1016/j.bjps.2008.07.021 · 2010 · External reference
Eyelid opening with trigeminal proprioceptive activation regulates a brainstem arousal mechanism
10.1371/journal.pone.0134659 · 2015 · External reference
Stretching of mechanoreceptors in superior tarsal muscle reflexively contracts slow-twitch fibers in facial expression muscles: a case series
10.7759/cureus.64438 · 2024 · External reference
Increased stretching of mechanoreceptors in superior tarsal muscle reflexively contracts upper trapezius muscle as well as levator palpebrae superioris and occipitofrontalis muscles as eye-eyelid-eyebrow-head coordinated movements: a case series
10.7759/cureus.80743 · 2025 · External reference
Mechanoreceptor stretching in the superior tarsal muscle triggering limb and craniocervical dystonia: a report of two cases
10.7759/cureus.112526 · 2026 · External reference
Microsaccades: small steps on a long way
10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.010 · 2009 · External reference
Extraocular motor nuclei: location, morphology and afferents
1988 · External reference
Efferent and afferent innervations of Mueller's muscle related to involuntary contraction of the levator muscle: important for avoiding injury during eyelid surgery
10.1016/j.bjps.2004.06.006 · 2005 · External reference
Cell bodies of the trigeminal proprioceptive neurons that transmit reflex contraction of the levator muscle are located in the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus in rats
10.3109/2000656x.2012.722094 · 2012 · External reference
Stretching of putative mechanoreceptors in the inferior tarsal muscle regulates tonic and clonic reflex contractions of slow-twitch fibers in the palpebral orbicularis oculi muscle causing apraxia of eyelid opening: a case series
10.7759/cureus.62450 · 2024 · External reference
Vision, perception, and attention through the lens of microsaccades: mechanisms and implications
10.3389/fnsys.2015.00167 · 2015 · External reference
Superior colliculus and visual spatial attention
10.1146/annurev-neuro-062012-170249 · 2013 · External reference
An integrative theory of locus coeruleus-norepinephrine function: adaptive gain and optimal performance
10.1146/annurev.neuro.28.061604.135709 · 2005 · External reference
Stress accelerates defensive responses to looming in mice and involves a locus coeruleus-superior colliculus projection
10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.005 · 2018 · External reference
Saccadic velocity as an arousal index in naturalistic tasks
10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.03.011 · 2013 · External reference
Etiology and pathogenesis of aponeurotic blepharoptosis
10.1097/00000637-200101000-00006 · 2001 · External reference
Brainstem control of saccadic eye movements
10.1146/annurev.ne.08.030185.001515 · 1985 · External reference
The brainstem control of saccadic eye movements
10.1038/nrn986 · 2002 · External reference
Blink perturbation effects on saccades evoked by microstimulation of the superior colliculus
10.1371/journal.pone.0051843 · 2012 · External reference
