In the case of conditions such as stroke or Huntington’s disease—which are largely treated ... when prompted to interpret the behavior of animated shapes. Brain networks involved in social ...

Huntington’s disease symptoms are linked to expanding DNA repeats (CAG) that become toxic in brain cells over time The "ticking DNA clock" accelerates after 80 repeats, killing neurons within ...

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

This study presents a valuable finding on the alterations in the autophagic-lysosomal pathway in a Huntington's disease model. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid. However, the ...

Beta blockers were associated with later appearance of motor symptoms and slower symptom worsening, but an outside expert questioned their appropriateness for Huntington’s disease.

This type of "somatic expansion" occurs in only the specific types of brain cells that later die in Huntington's disease. Only once a cell's DNA expansion reaches a threshold number of CAGs ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ For decades it's been one of the defining mysteries of Huntington's disease. Why does the terrible devastation of mind and body start earlier in some people who ...

The field of Huntington’s disease research has been undergoing a radical reshaping of how the brain-ravaging disease — and what drives it — is understood. After decades focused on the notion ...

For many people, the symptoms of Huntington's disease will not begin to show for decades. The genetic disorder is incurable but it is not uncommon for sufferers to reach middle-age before the ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the ...

Huntington’s disease is horrible. It is also odd. Illnesses caused by inherited aberrant genes are mostly what geneticists call “recessive”, meaning someone must receive defective versions ...