Excessive blinking as an initial manifestation of juvenile Huntington's disease

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 275-277

  Xing, Shihui ^a   Chen, Ling ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Pei, Zhong ^a   Zeng, Jinsheng ^a   Li, Jinru ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blinking; CAG repeats; Juvenile Huntington's disease

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE; HALOPERIDOL; HUNTINGTON DISEASE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BLINKING; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG RESPONSE; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYMPTOM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

AGE OF ONSET; ATROPHY; BLINKING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; TICS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 53149087087     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-008-0981-7     Document Type: Article

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