A Novel Ecological Approach Reveals Early Executive Function Impairments in Huntington’s Disease

@article{Jlio2019ANE,
  title={A Novel Ecological Approach Reveals Early Executive Function Impairments in Huntington’s Disease},
  author={Filipa J{\'u}lio and Maria J Ribeiro and Miguel Patr{\'i}cio and Alexandre Malh{\~a}o and F{\'a}bio Pedrosa and H{\'e}lio Gonçalves and Marco Sim{\~o}es and Marieke van Asselen and M{\'a}rio Rodrigues Sim{\~o}es and Miguel Castelo‐Branco and Cristina Janu{\'a}rio},
  journal={Frontiers in Psychology},
  year={2019},
  volume={10},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:84843104}
}
The EcoKitchen task, developed as an ecological executive function assessment tool, was found to be sensitive to early deficits in this domain and adds a potential tool for diagnosis and management of the patients’ real-life problems.

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