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Volume 2012, Article ID 793076, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/793076
Research Article

Neurocognitive Correlates of Apathy and Anxiety in Parkinson's Disease

Yelena Bogdanova1,2,3,4 and Alice Cronin-Golomb1

1Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
2Psychology Research (151-A), VA Boston Healthcare System, 150 South Huntington Street, Boston, MA 02130, USA
3Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
4Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Received 31 July 2011; Accepted 25 October 2011

Academic Editor: Antonio Lucio Teixeira

Copyright © 2012 Yelena Bogdanova and Alice Cronin-Golomb. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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