The pattern of attentional deficits in Huntington's disease Export

@article{citeulike:4753743, abstract = {Different aspects of attention, e.g. phasic alertness, vigilance, divined attention, response flexibility response inhibition and intermodal integration, were investigated with a computerized test-battery in a group of 20 patients with Huntington's disease and 27 healthy controls. Huntington's disease patients are not impaired in reacting to task-contingent external stimulation in the phasic alertness task, hut the self-generated maintenance of attention as measured by the vigilance task, is disturbed. The simultaneous monitoring of different input-channels in the divided attention task and the ability to operate with information given to different modalities in the intermodal integration task are severely affected. The performance of Huntingtons disease patients in the response flexibility task, in which internal cued shifts are required, is impaired. Huntington's disease patients are also impaired in reacting selectively to go/no-go stimuli in the response inhibition task. it is suggested that a number of 'higher' cognitive deficits described in Huntington's disease might, at least partly, be due to basic attentional disturbances.}, address = {MRC Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, United Kingdom}, author = {Sprengelmeyer, R. and Lange, H. and Homberg, V.}, citeulike-article-id = {4753743}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0028918558&partnerID=40}, comment = {Source: Scopus ---=note-separator=--- Export Date: 5 June 2009 ---=note-separator=--- Cited By (since 1996): 57}, journal = {Brain}, keywords = {attention, huntingtons}, number = {1}, pages = {145--152}, posted-at = {2009-06-05 17:13:12}, priority = {2}, title = {The pattern of attentional deficits in Huntington's disease}, url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0028918558&partnerID=40}, volume = {118}, year = {1995} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4753743 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4753743 N2 - Different aspects of attention, e.g. phasic alertness, vigilance, divined attention, response flexibility response inhibition and intermodal integration, were investigated with a computerized test-battery in a group of 20 patients with Huntington's disease and 27 healthy controls. Huntington's disease patients are not impaired in reacting to task-contingent external stimulation in the phasic alertness task, hut the self-generated maintenance of attention as measured by the vigilance task, is disturbed. The simultaneous monitoring of different input-channels in the divided attention task and the ability to operate with information given to different modalities in the intermodal integration task are severely affected. The performance of Huntingtons disease patients in the response flexibility task, in which internal cued shifts are required, is impaired. Huntington's disease patients are also impaired in reacting selectively to go/no-go stimuli in the response inhibition task. it is suggested that a number of 'higher' cognitive deficits described in Huntington's disease might, at least partly, be due to basic attentional disturbances. IS - 1 JF - Brain AD - MRC Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, United Kingdom EP - 152 TI - The pattern of attentional deficits in Huntington's disease VL - 118 SP - 145 KW - attention KW - huntingtons N1 - Source: Scopus N1 - Export Date: 5 June 2009 N1 - Cited By (since 1996): 57 AU - Sprengelmeyer, R AU - Lange, H AU - Homberg, V PY - 1995/// UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0028918558&partnerID=40 ER -