Abnormal explicit but normal implicit sequence learning in premanifest and early huntington's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1343-1349

  Schneider, Susanne A ^a   Wilkinson, Leonora ^a   Bhatia, Kailash P ^a   Henley, Susie M D ^b   Rothwell, John C ^a   Tabrizi, Sarah J ^b   Jahanshahi, Marjan ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Explicit sequence learning; Huntington's disease; Implicit sequence learning; Manifesting; Presymptomatic; Serial reaction time task

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SERIAL LEARNING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 77954971388     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22692     Document Type: Article

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