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. 1987 May;31(1):1-10.
doi: 10.1016/0093-934x(87)90056-3.

Neurolinguistic characteristics of language production in Huntington's disease: a preliminary report

W P Gordon, J Illes
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Neurolinguistic characteristics of language production in Huntington's disease: a preliminary report

W P Gordon et al. Brain Lang. 1987 May.
Free article

Abstract

Samples of spontaneous and descriptive speech were obtained from 12 patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and 24 at risk (AR) controls. The data were assessed according to a neurolinguistic protocol. HD was identified with a significant reduction in number of words produced, a diminished level of syntactic complexity, reductions of melodic line, phrase length, articulatory agility, and grammatical form, and increases in paraphasic errors and word-finding difficulty. The data were interpreted in support of the hypothesis that neostriatal pathology affects linguistic processing.

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