HUNTINGTONS-DISEASE

Authors
PREISS M ZIDOVSKA J
Citation
M. Preiss et J. Zidovska, HUNTINGTONS-DISEASE, Ceskoslovenska psychologie, 40(5), 1996, pp. 444-450
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology
Journal title
Ceskoslovenska psychologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
0009062X
Volume
40
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
444 - 450
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-062X(1996)40:5<444:H>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
The authors present information about Huntington's disease (HD). They refer to its basic characteristics and give information about selected psychologically aimed studies concerned with HD. Three casuistics wit h mild and marked manifestations of HD in the psychological examinatio n are referred to. An overview of suitable methods for the psychologic al examination of HD is given. The authors also report on the Society for help in the Huntington's disease and about its objectives.