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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated behind the auricle, or ear.

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  • Results Relative to the control group, the opiate-dependent group rated pleasant pictures as less arousing and showed increased corrugator activity, less postauricular potentiation, and decreased startle-elicited P300 attenuation while viewing pleasant pictures.

    Archives of General Psychiatry current issue 2009

  • Self-ratings, facial electromyography, startle-elicited postauricular reflex, and event-related potentials combined with measures of heroin use at baseline and follow-up.

    Archives of General Psychiatry current issue 2009

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