Higher Levels of Extroverted Hostility Detected in Gene Carriers at Risk for Huntington's Disease

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1347-1352

  Vassos, Evangelos ^a   Panas, Marios ^a   Kladi, Athina ^a   Vassilopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

CAG repeats; genetics; hostility; Huntington disease; psychiatric disorders; SCID

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 36549062484     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.12.016     Document Type: Article

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