Clinical assessment of mobility and balance impairments in pre-symptomatic Huntington's disease

Gait and Posture

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 391-393

  Rao, Ashwini K ^a   Louis, Elan D ^a,b   Marder, Karen S ^a,b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical assessment; Huntington's disease; Mobility and balance; Pre symptomatic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; GAIT; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 68349152634     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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