Frontotemporal cognitive function in X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA): A controlled neuropsychological study of 20 patients

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 256, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1869-1875

  Soukup, Georg Rüdiger ^a,b   Sperfeld, Anne Dorte ^a   Uttner, Ingo ^a   Karitzky, Jochen ^a   Ludolph, Albert Christian ^a   Kassubek, Jan ^a   Schreiber, Herbert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Kreiskrankenhaus Biberach   (Germany)

^c Neuropoint Patient Academy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Executive function; Frontal lobe function; Kennedy syndrome; Memory; Motor neurone disease; Neuropsychology; Temporal lobe function; X linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; BULBO-SPINAL ATROPHY, X-LINKED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 73449107774     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-009-5212-5     Document Type: Article

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