Beta blockers were associated with later appearance of motor symptoms and slower symptom worsening, but an outside expert ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately 20 ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington's disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington's ...

A recent study published in Cell reveals that the repeated DNA sequence that leads to Huntington’s disease (HD) expands ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of Huntington's disease. This genetic disorder has long been ...

Researchers at Tufts University revealed a possible molecular mechanism explaining how the DNA repeats are broken and then expanded in the Huntington’s disease gene, pointing to a component of the ...

The team found that although functions such as movement, thinking or behaviour remained normal for a long time before the onset of symptoms in Huntington’s disease, subtle changes to the brain ...

Huntington's symptoms—which include involuntary movement, unsteady gait ... In people without the disease this sequence is repeated just 15 to 35 times. They discovered that DNA tracts with ...