Selective executive dysfunction but intact risky decision-making in early Huntington's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1104-1109

  Holl, Anna K ^a,b   Wilkinson, Leonora ^a,c   Tabrizi, Sarah J ^a   Painold, Annamaria ^b   Jahanshahi, Marjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Executive function; Huntington's disease; Iowa Gambling Task; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MENTAL DETERIORATION; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

DECISION-MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE; IOWA GAMBLING TASK; STROOP TASK;

ADULT; AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; DECISION MAKING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK-TAKING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84883135550     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25388     Document Type: Article

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