1981
DOI: 10.3109/00207458108985820
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Neuropsychological Deficits in Early, Middle, and Late Stage Huntington's Disease as Measured by the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery

Abstract: The study compared 5 patients with recently diagnosed Huntington's Disease with 8 patients whose onset was between 36 and 66 months prior to testing, 6 patients whose onset was greater than 72 months previous, and 7 control patients equated for age and education. The results showed evidence of focal damage in the early group on two scales of the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery: Memory and Visual. However, the results also suggested a general diffuse process, present in the early group in only very mi… Show more

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“…2,32 The relevance of cognitive deficits to activities of daily living was evident in that a significant relationship was found between the Total Functional Assessment subsection of the UHDRS and executive function (i.e., the strategy score for the one-touch Tower of London task). This lends some support to the notion that visuospatial measures are sensitive to the progression of cognitive impairment although it may not be a prominent feature of early HD.…”
Section: )mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2,32 The relevance of cognitive deficits to activities of daily living was evident in that a significant relationship was found between the Total Functional Assessment subsection of the UHDRS and executive function (i.e., the strategy score for the one-touch Tower of London task). This lends some support to the notion that visuospatial measures are sensitive to the progression of cognitive impairment although it may not be a prominent feature of early HD.…”
Section: )mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…La memoria en la EH ha sido ampliamente estudiada. Diferentes investigadores se帽alan que las alteraciones nem贸nicas pueden aparecer desde estadios precl铆nicos de la enfermedad [5,6], mientras que otros autores apuntan que 茅stas aparecen m谩s bien en los estadios iniciales de la misma [7,[44][45][46]. La evidencia acumulada hasta el momento sugiere que las alteraciones de memoria en la EH se deben m谩s a un fallo en los procesos de recuperaci贸n de la informaci贸n que en los de codificaci贸n [47] o almacenamiento [6].…”
Section: Discussionunclassified
“…Usualmente, se presenta durante la mitad de la vida adulta (entre los 35 y los 50 a帽os), con una edad promedio de vida restante de 10-20 a帽os, y afecta por igual a hombres y mujeres [3]. Se han realizado diferentes estudios neuropsicol贸gicos con el fin de conocer el funcionamiento cognitivo de estos pacientes [4][5][6][7][8][9][10] y el patr贸n de declive cognitivo se considera como prototipo de una demencia subcortical [11,12], debido fundamentalmente a una afectaci贸n frontosubcortical [13,14] en la que predominan alteraciones de atenci贸n-concentraci贸n, flexibilidad cognitiva y abstracci贸n [15], fluidez verbal [16,17], memoria epis贸dica [7], velocidad de procesamiento cognitivo [18,19] y habilidades visuoespaciales [20]. Sin embargo, dichas alteraciones cognitivas no parecen ser homog茅neas, puesto que estos pacientes pueden llegar a presentar otras alteraciones, como dificultades de aprendizaje y de retenci贸n de informaci贸n [21], memoria auditiva [22], reconocimiento espacial [9], discriminaci贸n facial [23], agilidad articulatoria [24], memoria procedimental [25], reconocimiento de la emoci贸n de desagrado [26], manipulaci贸n del espacio extrapersonal [27] y problemas de atenci贸n dividida e inhibici贸n [28].…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…Quantitative indices from the Luria-Nebraska were found to correlate significantly with CT scan quantitative indices in alcoholic and schizophrenic (Golden, Moses, et at., 1980) samples. There have been several studies of specific neurological disorders including multiple sclerosis (Golden, 1979), alcoholism (Chmielewski & Golden, 1980), Huntington's disease (Moses, Golden, Berger, & Wisniewski, 1981), and learning disability (McCue, Shelly, Goldstein, & Katz-Garris, 1984), all with satisfactory results in terms of discrimination.…”
Section: Assessment Of Adultsmentioning
confidence: 99%