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Social Aspects of Huntington's Chorea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Mary B. Hans  and
Thomas H. Gilmore
Mary B. Hans
Affiliation:
United States Veterans Administration Hospital, Albany, New York
Thomas H. Gilmore
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Service, United States Veterans Administration Hospital, Albany, New York, and at the Albany Medical College, Albany, New York
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Huntington's Chorea is a hereditary neurological disease which occurs in adulthood and manifests itself in involuntary bodily movements and progressive physical and mental deterioration. It is irreversible and responds to no therapy. Its course is about fifteen years in duration, death usually resulting from an intercurrent illness. Not only does it entail a catastrophic health problem for the person affected, but it also creates major emotional-social-financial problems for his family, and challenges the medical-social resources of the entire community.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 506 , January 1968 , pp. 93 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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