[Psychosocial problems in Huntington chorea. 1: Overview, project description. social and illness-related data]. / Psychosoziale Probleme bei Huntingtonscher Chorea. Teil 1: Ubersicht, Projektbeschreibung, soziale und krankheitsbezogene Daten.

Huntington's Disease, a neuropsychiatric disorder with dominant inheritance and late manifestation is related to multiple psychosocial problems of the affected person, his life partner as well as their children (so-called individuals at risk). During a five years project the authors contacted 131 persons, directly and indirectly involved in problems with H.D. In the first part the authors present after a general survey sociodemographic and clinical data of the project.

[Psychosocial problems in Huntington chorea. 2: Results and experiences from a 5-year project]. / Psychosoziale Probleme bei Huntingtonscher Chorea. Teil 2: Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen aus einem fünfjährigen Projekt.

The following article is informing about the experiences from a psychosocial project on Huntington's Disease (HD), a neuropsychiatric disorder with dominant inheritance. The project was running from July 1987 to October 1992 and was funded by the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung. During this project the authors contacted 78 involved families (131 persons), they offered psychotherapies, family-therapies, as well as meetings for patients and explored the subject by semi-structured interviews. The results of this project are presented in the following part.