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Skin Conductance Responses in Huntington's Chorea Progeny
Author(s) -
Lawson Evenina A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1981.tb01537.x
Subject(s) - skin conductance , chorea , psychology , asymptomatic , audiology , offspring , developmental psychology , psychiatry , neuroscience , cardiology , medicine , pregnancy , genetics , disease , biology , biomedical engineering
To test the assumption that limbic dysfunctioning in Huntington's Chorea (HC) would be reflected in abnormal skin conductance responses, 25 patients were examined.Only 2 of these patient showed normal skin conductance response. A further sample of 52 first generation, asymptomatic offspring of diagnosed HC patentes were tested. Seventeen of the at‐risk subject were non‐responders compared with 2 non‐responders in the control sample of 26 subjects. The finding could be interpreted to favor the hypothesis that the presence of the pathogenic gene is correlated with electrodermal non‐responding.