Use of the frontal assessment battery in evaluating executive dysfunction in patients with Huntington’s disease
✍ Scribed by Guilherme Riccioppo Rodrigues; Carolina Pinto Souza; Roberto Satler Cetlin; Daniel Sabino de Oliveira; Marcio Pena-Pereira; Liliana Tiemi Ujikawa; Wilson Marques; Vitor Tumas
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Volume
- 256
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5354
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