{"id":7946,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fasciculation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:22","slug":"fasciculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fasciculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasciculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A small, localised, rapid and involuntary muscle contraction or twitch involving contiguous groups of skeletal muscle fibers visible beneath the skin. &nbsp;Many twitches are evident in the face (see face below) as, for example in Tourette&#8217;s syndrome. &nbsp;It is triggered by a spontaneous discharge of a bundle of muscle fibers or filaments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/muscle-twitches_vg.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">Random facial muscle twitch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"denervation\">Denervation<\/a>, <a href=\"fibrillation\">Fibrillation<\/a>, <a href=\"muscle_fiber\">Muscle fiber<\/a>, <a href=\"striated_-or_striped_or_voluntary-_muscle\">Striated (or striped or voluntary) muscle<\/a>, <a href=\"tourette-s_syndrome\">Tourette&#8217;s syndrome<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small, localised, rapid and involuntary muscle contraction or twitch involving contiguous groups of skeletal muscle fibers visible beneath the skin. &nbsp;Many twitches are evident in the face (see face below) as, for example in Tourette&#8217;s syndrome. &nbsp;It is triggered by a spontaneous discharge of a bundle of muscle fibers or filaments.&nbsp; Random facial muscle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fasciculation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fasciculation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}