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Psychiatric Symptoms Do Not Correlate with Cognitive Decline, Motor Sympt or CAG Repeat Length in Huntington's
Arch Neurol 53:493-497, Zappacosta,B.,et al, 1996
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Article Abstract
The lack of correlation between disease severity and psychiatric disturbances indicates that psychiatric disorders progress nonlinearly, possibly because of differential degeneration and the striatal-cortical circuits;the possibility that psychiatric disorders are prevalent in certain families with a member who has Huntington's disease is being further investigated the lack of correlation between CAG length and cognitive and psychiatric variables needs further investigation.
 
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