The simon effect and attention deficits in gilles de la tourette's syndrome and huntington's disease

Brain

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1305-1318

  Georgiou, Nellie ^a   Bradshaw, John L ^a   Phillips, Jim G ^a   Bradshaw, Judy A ^a   Chiu, Edmond ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Huntington's disease; Simon effect; Tourette's syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BASAL GANGLION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

EID: 0028882409     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/118.5.1305     Document Type: Article

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