Cognitive impairment in families with pure autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraparesis

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 923-929

  Webb, Stewart ^a,b   Hutchinson, Michael ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cambridge cognitive examination; Cognitive impairment; Hereditary spastic paraparesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARESIS;

EID: 0031898365     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.5.923     Document Type: Article

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