Perception of emotional facial expressions at different intensities in early-symptomatic Huntington's disease

European Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 151-154

  Montagne, Barbara ^a,b   Kessels, Roy P C ^a,c   Kammers, Marjolein P M ^a   Kingma, Elselijn ^d   De Haan, Edward H F ^a,b   Roos, Raymund A C ^d   Middelkoop, Huub A M ^d,e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affective processing; Basal ganglia disorders; Huntington's disease; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33745271375     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093215     Document Type: Article

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