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[Psychiatric symptoms in patients with Huntington's disease]
Rasmus Nejst Jensen1, Tom Bolwig, Sven Asger Sørensen
1nejst1@yahoo.dk.
Abstract:
Huntington's disease is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by a triad of symptoms: motor, cognitive and psychiatric. Psychiatric symptoms occur prior to the motor symptoms in approximately 50% of the cases, and knowledge of the psychiatric symptoms is essential in making an early diagnosis. In this article, we argue that further knowledge of the genetic background of Huntington's disease may contribute to a better understanding of the polygenetic psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder.
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