Neuropsychiatric manifestations of Huntington's disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Neuropsychiatric symptoms can precede the classic motor clinical symptoms of HD (prodromal HD) by decades, and cause significant functional impairment. HD provides key insights and understanding into the organic psychiatric disorders, including contemporary clinical insights into the process of neurodegeneration and manifestation of neuropsychiatric symptoms.
PMID: 30012004 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - July 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Goh AM, Wibawa P, Loi SM, Walterfang M, Velakoulis D, Looi JC Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research