Increased cognitive functioning in symptomatic Huntington's disease as revealed by behavioral and event-related potential indices of auditory sensory memory and attention

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 45, 2008, Pages 11695-11702

  Beste, Christian ^a,b   Saft, Carsten ^c   Güntürkün, Onur ^d   Falkenstein, Michael ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Huntington's disease (HD); Mismatch negativity (MMN); Neurodegeneration; NMDA receptors; P3a; Reorienting negativity (RON); Sensory memory

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 58149232258     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2659-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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