Executive and mnemonic functions in early Huntington's disease

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1633-1645

  Lawrence, Andrew D ^a,b   Sahakian, Barbara J ^b,e   Hodges, John R ^b   Rosser, Anne E ^b,c   Lange, Klaus W ^d   Robbins, Trevor W ^a,c  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Huntington's disease; Memory; Striatum; Subcortical dementia

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; HALOPERIDOL; SULPIRIDE; TEMAZEPAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0029906665     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.5.1633     Document Type: Article

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