Language impairment in Huntington's disease

Autor:	Mariana Jardim Azambuja, Marcia Radanovic, Mônica Santoro Haddad, Carla Cristina Adda, Egberto Reis Barbosa, Letícia Lessa Mansur
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	doença de Huntington linguagem transtornos motores lobo frontal núcleo caudado Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry RC321-571
Zdroj:	Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Vol 70, Iss 6, Pp 410-415 (2012)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1678-4227 0004-282X
DOI:	10.1590/S0004-282X2012000600006
Popis:	Language alterations in Huntington's disease (HD) are reported, but their nature and correlation with other cognitive impairments are still under investigation. This study aimed to characterize the language disturbances in HD and to correlate them to motor and cognitive aspects of the disease. We studied 23 HD patients and 23 controls, matched for age and schooling, using the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, Boston Naming Test, the Token Test, Animal fluency, Action fluency, FAS-COWA, the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, the Stroop Test and the Hooper Visual Organization Test (HVOT). HD patients performed poorer in verbal fluency (p
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