Executive dysfunction in early stages of Huntington's disease is associated with striatal and insular atrophy: A neuropsychological and voxel-based morphometric study

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-19

  Peinemann, Alexander ^a   Schuller, Sabine ^a,c   Pohl, Corina ^a   Jahn, Thomas ^a   Weindl, Adolf ^a   Kassubek, Jan ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Executive function; Huntington's disease; Insula; MRI; Striatum; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INSULA; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUTAMEN;

EID: 27744438097     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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