Phonemic Fluency Deficits in Asymptomatic Gene Carriers for Huntington's Disease

Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 596-605

  Larsson, Maria U ^a   Almkvist, Ove ^a,b   Luszcz, Mary A ^c   Wahlin, Tarja Brita Robins ^a,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

cognition; Huntington's disease; preclinical; verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDER; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDERS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 54049130078     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.22.5.596     Document Type: Article

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