'It's more than just irritability': perspectives and experiences of irritability among people affected by Huntington's disease.
Objective: Irritability has been reported as a common psychological co-occurrence with Huntington's disease (HD). Irritability associated with HD is variously attributed to neurological changes, an understandable response to increasing difficulties with cognition and communication, or a multifactori...
| Publicado en: | Psychology & Health Vol. 41; no. 5; pp. 674 - 696 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2026
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