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Socio-Psychiatric Consequences of Huntington's Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Kenneth Dewhurst ,
J. E. Oliver  and
A. L. McKnight
Kenneth Dewhurst
Affiliation:
Littlemore Hospital, Oxford
J. E. Oliver
Affiliation:
Burderop Hospital, Wroughton, Wilts
A. L. McKnight
Affiliation:
Littlemore Hospital, Oxford
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The complex interaction of genetic and environmental influences in Huntington's disease results in successive generations living in deteriorating social circumstances. As the disease is untreatable (other than by palliative measures), spouses and unaffected children also suffer indirectly from its socio-psychiatric consequences.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 116 , Issue 532 , March 1970 , pp. 255 - 258
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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