Non-Verbal and Verbal Fluency in Prodromal Huntington's Disease
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Non-Verbal and Verbal Fluency in Prodromal Huntington's Disease.
BACKGROUND This study examines non-verbal (design) and verbal (phonemic and semantic) fluency in prodromal Huntington's disease (HD). An accumulating body of research indicates subtle deficits in cognitive functioning among prodromal mutation carriers for HD. METHODS Performance was compared between 32 mutation carriers and 38 non-carriers in order to examine the magnitude of impairment acros...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1664-5464
DOI: 10.1159/000441942