It wasn't Witchcraft - It was Huntington Disease!

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 115-116

  Penaranda, Eribeth ^a   Garcia, Angel ^a   Montgomery, Lisa ^a  

^a Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Behavior mechanisms; Doctor Patient relationship; Medical ethics; Neurology

Indexed keywords

TETRABENAZINE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; WITCHCRAFT;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; FEMALE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; MYTHOLOGY; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 78651357773     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2011.01.100145     Document Type: Article

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