Impaired planning but intact decision making in early Huntington's disease: Implications for specific fronto-striatal pathology

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1112-1125

  Watkins, L H A ^a   Rogers, R D ^b,d   Lawrence, A D ^b,c   Sahakian, B J ^b   Rosser, A E ^a,b   Robbins, T W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Cognition; Executive function; Frontal lobes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PLANNING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034074554     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00028-2     Document Type: Article

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